早期现代汉语语法研究的性质:模仿还是借鉴——以黎锦熙《新著国语文法》为例

对早期现代汉语语法研究及其代表性著作,一个相当常见的评价是"模仿",这是很不客观的。是否模仿,事关早期现代汉语语法研究的性质问题,所以有必要彻底厘清。《新著国语文法》一书作者自己的表述、学者们的相关论述、特别是书中主要内容所反映的实际情况,证明此书是"借鉴"而不是"模仿"。推而广之,整个早期现代汉语语法研究的性质也是借鉴而不是模仿。

Nature of Research on Early Modern Chinese Grammar:Imitation or Reference——A Case Study of A New Grammar of the Chinese National Language by Li Jinxi

"Imitation" is a pretty common comment on research on early modern Chinese grammar and typical works of it.In fact,it is not objective.Whether it imitated western grammar or not is a matter of the nature of research on early modern Chinese grammar,so it is necessary to make it clear completely.This article takes A New Grammar of the Chinese National Language as an example to prove that this work referred to western grammars instead of imitating them,which can be shown through the author’s expressions,scholars’ related expositions,and especially the main contents in it.Furthermore,the nature of whole research on the early modern Chinese grammar is reference instead of imitation.