Kitajskaja grammatika (1835)

Alessandro Leopardi received his PhD in Asian and African Civilisations from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2020). His research focuses on contacts between the Slavic world and China, the history of Italian Sinology, and contact linguistics. He is currently a researcher in Chinese Language and Literature at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Sapienza University of Rome.

• Note on the Romanisation of Cyrillic Employed in the Present WorkPrefaceHistorical Context and Analysis: Russia’s First Grammar of Chinese1. Introduction2. The Diversity of Languages3. Reassessing the Sources4. The Bičurinian FrameworkOriginal and Translation: Chinese Grammar (1835); On the Pronunciation of the Letters That Compose the Chinese Syllables (1839)Translator’s NoteHanwen qimeng 漢文啟蒙 (Chinese Grammar) Composed byFather Iakinf, Saint Petersburg, 1835 Foreword Part I: Containing the Basic Concepts of Chinese Language and WritingChapter 1: On the Chinese LanguageChapter 2: On the Classification of Sounds by PronunciationChapter 3: On Chinese WritingChapter 4: On the Structure of Chinese CharactersChapter 5: On the Strokes of Chinese CharactersChapter 6: On the Different Styles of WritingChapter 7: On Orthography and Punctuation MarksChapter 8: On the Reading of Chinese CharactersChapter 9: On Tones Chapter 10: On the Classification of Chinese CharactersChapter 11: On CalligraphyChapter 12: Supplement to the Basic Notions on Chinese WritingPart II: Containing the Grammatical Rules of the Chinese LanguageChapter 1: On the Lack of Word Inflection in the Chinese Language and the Parts of SpeechChapter 2: On the NounChapter 3: On the AdjectiveChapter 4: On the PronounChapter 5: On VerbsChapter 6: On AdverbsChapter 7: On PrepositionsChapter 8: On Conjunctions Chapter 9: On InterjectionsChapter 10: On the Chinese Classification of the Parts of SpeechChapter 11: On the Arrangement of the Full WordsChapter 12: On the Arrangement of the Empty Words Appendices On the Pronunciation of the Letters That Compose the Chinese SyllablesSupplement to the Chinese Grammar, 1839