... has shed a little light on the earliest cultures in China but has not solved this perplexing riddle. In this lecture, we will first begin our quest for the mythical origins of China. 1. Mythical Origins a. Pan Ku He is said to come from an extremely large egg called the Great Monad. When the egg broke, the upper half of the shell became the ... 1. non-inflectional (no conjugations or declensions to indicate tense, mood, number, gender, and the like); 2. monosyllabic morpheme; 3. no form change in part of speech, especially in Classical Chinese; 4. use of word order and auxiliary words t...

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