Alain Peyraube - Publications#

• Les constructions locatives en chinois moderne. Paris: Editions Langages croises, 1980. 320 p.
• Shuang binyu jiegou cong Han dai zhi Tang dai de lishi fazhan (Double-object constructions from Han to Tang). Zhongguo yuwen 3, 1986. 204-216.
• Syntaxe diachronique du chinois – evolution des constructions datives. Paris: College de France, 1988. 351 p. (French Academy Stanislas Julien Prize).
• Zaoqi ba ziju de jige wenti (Some problems concerning the early ba forms). Yuwen yanjiu 1, 1989. 1-9.
• History of the passive construction in Chinese until the 10th century. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 17-2, 1989. 335-372.
• Syntactic change in Chinese: on grammaticalization. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica Taiwan 59-3, 1991. 617-652.
• Recent Issues in Chinese Historical Syntax. New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics. Huang and Li eds, Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1996. 161-214.
• Historical Change in Chinese Grammar. Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 28-2, 1999. 177-226.
• Ancient Chinese. Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. R. Woodard ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 988-1014
• Motion events in Chinese: A diachronic study of directional complements. M. Hickmann and S. Robert eds., Space in languages: linguistic systems and cognitive categories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 121-138.

• On the Modal Auxiliaries of Volition in Classical Chinese. H. Chappell ed., Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 172-188
• L'évolution des structures grammaticales. Langages 146, 2002, pp. 46-58
• On the History of Place Words and Localizers in Chinese - A Cognitive Approach. A. Y-H. Li & A. Simpson eds., Functional Structure, Form and Interpretation. London: Routledge-Curzon, 2003, pp. 180-198
• Grammaire diachronique et cognition: l’exemple du chinois. C. Fuchs ed., La linguistique cognitive. Paris: Orphys, 2004, pp. 135-154
• Origin and evolution of question-words in Archaic Chinese : A cognitive approach. Cahiers de linguistique – Asie Orientale 34-1, 2005, pp. 3-24 (with Wu Fuxiang)
• L’homme aux six mille langues. J.-M. Hombert ed., Aux origines des langues et du langage. Paris : Editions Fayard, 2005, pp. 450-461.
• On the history of some adverbs of scope and quantity in Chinese. C. Anderl & H. Eifring eds. Studies in Chinese language and culture – Festchrift in honour of Christoph Harbsmeier in the occasion of his 60th birthday. Oslo : Hermes Academic Publishing, 2006, pp. 269-283.
• The Analytic Causatives of Early Modern Southern Min in Diachronic Perspective. D.-A. Ho, H.S. Cheung, W. Pan, F. Wu eds. Linguistic studies in Chinese and neighboring languages. Taiwan: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, 2006, pp. 973-1012. (with Hilary Chappell)
• 2007. 早期近代闽南话分析型致使结构的历史探讨 Zaoqi jindai Minnanhua fenxixing zhishi jiegou de lishi tantao ˙(An historical exploration of analytical causatives in Early Southern Min). Fangyan方言 ( Chinese dialects). (with Hilary Chappell), 1: 52-59.
• 2007. Chinese linguistics and typology: the state of the art. Linguistic Typology 11.1: 187-211. (with Li Ming and Alain Peyraube)