The Language Of Eminent Monk Biography Influenced By Dual Factors

This essay deals with the language of Chinese Buddhist scripture Continuation Eminent Monk Biography in the early Tang dynasty. The Study is based on the diachronic and the synchronic analysis methods. We investigate the facts about me grammar and the vocabulary and try to expound some language phenomena in Continuation Eminent Monk Biography through the quantitative analysis as well as the qualitative analysis. We hope this study can offer some valuable tacts and viewpoints through specially study of Continuation Eminent Monk Biography.At firstly,this thesis studies the cause of the type of writing literature form as well as type of writing. By comparison,we hold that:the type of writing literature form is mainly parted for four characters. This was not only influenced by the official history culture and the funeral culture such as the epitaph,but the Chinese version of Buddhist scriptures;the type of writing which was mainly composed of the Classical Chinese was influenced by traditional civilization. Thus Continuation Eminent Monk Biography differed from not only the traditional documents,but also the Chinese version of Buddhist scriptures.Secondly,although having strongly classical Chinese,Continuation Eminent Monk Biography still preserved lots valuable facts about grammar,such as affix "lao-",u-zi "-tow""jia-,verb classifiers,overlapping,the third personal pronoun,and the disposal construction,etc.Finally,we want to perspective the inheritance and the development of Chinese vocabulary. The author asserts that in Continuation Eminent Monk Biography there have some new words or new lexical meanings while teeming with a number of ancient words. The most important is the typical words such as "haozhu"which mirrored the characteristic of Tang period,because 'every history has its own word". Concurrently,there are a number of renewal everyday expressions and juxtaposed disyllabic synonyms. But facts are obviously sluggish than the facts of colloquialism. Although the facts verify that the document that was mainly composed of Classical writings does not right mirror that day's language facts,we must affirm Continuation Eminent Monk Biography is a valuable early Tang document,and the indisputable importance in the study of Chinese historical language.