Early Archaic Chinese

A descriptive grammar of pre-Classical Chinese by W.A.C.H. Dobson, from the 1960s. From the introduction: "The present work is a descriptive grammar of Early Archaic Chinese, the language of document and inscription of ancient China in the eleventh and tenth centuries B.C. It is a companion volume to Late Archaic Chinese which described the grammar of the language of literature of the fourth and third centuries B.C. In Late Archaic Chinese, a formal analytical system was devised by which the grammatical features of Archaic Chinese can be accounted for. Within Archaic Chinese, however, which had a currency extending in time from the eleventh to the third centuries B.C., considerable evolutionary change is observable."