On The Factors That Restrict The Word Order Of The Archaic Chinese

The grammar of Classical and modern Chinese share common features as wellas differences. In view of language universals, we found that three principles,namely, Identffiability Precedence, Semantic Proximity, Distance-marking Correspondence,etc. that constraint the word order of Modern Chinese could also help to explain thesequencing of Classical Chinese. These principles may work alone; they may alsocompete with each other. It will also be discussed in this dissertation.