Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Theory and fact - A study of the translated Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period from the perspective of language contact -- On the origin of the Chinese reflexive ziji from the perspective of the Medieval Chinese Buddhist scriptures -- The origin and development of negative exclusive particles in the Chinese language -- The postpositions suo 所 and bian 边 in translated Chinese Buddhist scriptures of the Medieval Period -- Variant reduplication and four-character state adjectives in Yuan Zaju -- The correlation between the Chinese purpose construction "VP + qu (去, 'go')" and SOV languages -- On the Han'er Yanyu of the Yuan Dynasty -- A study of the special syntactic features in Yuan baihua -- On the special syntactic features in the vernacular imperial edicts of the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1424) -- The influence of language contact on word order of some minority languages in Southern China -- Second language acquisition and contactinduced language change in the history of the Chinese language -- Postscript -- Index