Yang, born in September, 194 1, a native of Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main academic expertise is modern Chinese grammar, and he is now engaged in modern Chinese grammar research. 1February 1973 to1July 1974 studied in the Department of Foreign Trade of Tianjin University of Finance and Economics,1September 1974 to1September 1978 taught in Tianjin Hongqiao Middle School, and1June 1978 has worked in the Language Institute of Tianjin University. Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Language Society.
198 1 Graduated from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with a master's degree in literature. Since 198 1, he has been engaged in grammar theory, natural language understanding and modern Chinese grammar research in the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Under the guidance of the famous linguist Mr. Lv Shuxiang, he introduced logic into the study of Chinese grammar system, and published the monograph "Research on Chinese Grammar Theory" 1996 as a researcher.
Mr. Yang has extensive academic activities. In addition to linguistics, he has also written and published works in the fields of literature and art, catalogue editing, ancient books collation and so on, most of which are signed by Lin. He also cooperated with friends and introduced the works of art theory by Gombrich, a famous western art historian in the 20th century, and translated and revised such famous works as Art and Illusion and Art Story. In particular, he is famous for his efforts in the collection and research of ancient documents in China, and he is a member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee.
20 13, Yang is seriously ill. Once, he said to his friend, "I want to take a year off and finish writing Grammar Theory System, Cihua on Earth, Hua and Edition." This undoubtedly means that he will continue to push the stone with the tripod. Fortunately, the manuscript of Dialogue with the Outside World was finally completed, and Mr. Cheng Kai saw the publication of the book.
201410/8, "Six Poems to Tell Your Hearts" written by Yang: "Live up to spring, everything will be new, and the crowd is full of friends. Many vulgar people are jumping and jumping, and they are ashamed to follow the footsteps of Handan. " (1) "I have been wandering in the west for half my life, and my blood is not for sale." Taking advantage of the interest in fishing for the aojiang (later changed to you don't laugh), spitting beads blew away the wind for nine days. "(2)." When vultures are lonely, the world is cold and warm. Great plans are flying, and it may not be that Iraqis will not lose themselves. "(5)" on a whim "refers to the resumption of postgraduate entrance examination after the college entrance examination, and he seems to have dropped out of school in middle school. He learned all his knowledge except linguistics by himself, including foreign languages.
On August 20 15 14, he died in Beijing at the age of 74.
Second, linguistic research.
During the period of 1978, Mr. Yang applied for the postgraduate degree of Mr. China Academy of Social Sciences and submitted a paper on Chomsky. Later, he thought more and more deeply about grammar, and his ambition was to create a brand-new Chinese grammar system, whose theoretical basis was axiomatization, that is, deduction. The study of Chinese grammar theory published by 1996 is the first step for him to realize his ideas. In his book, he tries his best to highlight the power of hypothesis and emphasize the importance of justice. He discussed the advantages and disadvantages of metalanguage, formalism and functionalism. Now this book has become a masterpiece, especially the linguist Mr. Wang Zongyan wrote a book review for him, which inspired him even more.
Mr. Yang has been engaged in the study of Chinese grammar for many years. In the book Research on Chinese Grammar Theory, Mr. Yang believes that every grammar book, no matter what it contains, is describing the structural model of that language from the side as long as it tries to sketch the face of a language from what aspects. In the words of this book, it is to give a model to that language, and to simulate the way that that language works in some ways. However, we can't help but see that if we have different understandings of the scope of grammar, the contents of grammar books will be different, even very different. Therefore, when we comment on a grammar book, we must first look at what the grammar it says includes, because considering the content from a systematic perspective may affect its handling of some problems.
In the book A Study of Chinese Grammar Theory, Mr. Yang emphasized: "When we try to describe a language with a grammatical model, or write a book about grammar, we just see clearly and know clearly. First of all, we need to determine what language we want to describe and see its face clearly, and then we need to consider what methods to use to simulate its activity pattern and reflect its face. Specifically, it is to collect language materials that can represent language and express them in a common way ... We can be a representative of any group of things when they don't need to accurately understand their personalities, and it can be used as a starting point for accurately describing them when they need to accurately understand their personalities. " The characteristic of Yang's logic research is to find out what the object is first.
In the work of linguistic research, Mr. Yang has a consistent idea, that is, to reconcile the tense relationship between Plato's idea world and the phenomenon world, in other words, to use the eternal mathematical laws of the idea world to control the rapidly changing language of the phenomenon world. I'm afraid even Yang doesn't know whether this work can be fully realized. Even so, he has been groping through trial and error, writing at his desk and constantly changing. Just like Mr. Chen Jingrun's calculation of Goldbach's conjecture, he doesn't know how high the paper pile is, but he wants to make a breakthrough in methodology and make achievements on the basis of theory. This is not what we usually call writing grammar. It involves not only the rules, sentence patterns and structures of language, but also the formulas, theorems and assumptions of philosophical speculation. This is the work of a thinker. He seems to be a person, wandering with the sun and the moon, immersed in personal imagination and a large number of cards trivial information interactive feedback. For more than ten years, it's a bit like pushing stones up the mountain all the year round in Sisyphus.
The representative works of Mr. Yang's linguistic research mainly include Modern Chinese Law Research (single work), Generalized Predicate Object Type Research (paper), Summary of Modern Chinese Grammatical Metatheory Research (paper), Series of New Methods in Social Science (edited by linguistics and semiotics), Logical Analysis of Subject-predicate Syntactic Category and Topic Concept (paper).
Third, the study of ancient books.
Reading a Secretary in the Leisure Study Room is Mr. Yang's first book about ancient books. Sir, the language of this book is concise, and he relaxes the ancient books one by one. The articles included include Confucius' self-study, textual research of ancient books, book review of professional books, macro summary of editions, etc. Reading words, the book is both calm and extensive, and the word leisure is worthy of the name.
Influenced by ancient books since childhood, and because he made a vow to modify the lyrics, Mr. Yang collected a collection of words and embarked on the road of not returning to ancient books. In addition to studying linguistics, Mr. Yang also paid special attention to ancient books, especially those of Ci, and collected and studied them extensively. Since 1990s, Mr. Yang has published many related articles in Reading. As can be seen from the preface of this book, the main reason why Mr. Yang is immersed in ancient books is his personal life and reading experience, which has been slightly revealed in the book A Study of Chinese Grammar Theory published by 1996. In this purely theoretical work, although the author spent a lot of time trying to construct a grand linguistic meta-theoretical structure, it also revealed the author's homesickness. In A Brief Introduction to the Study of Chinese Grammar Theory, the author carefully recalled the story of Mr. Mai's linguistics books, and also showed his admiration for Mr. Hua's self-study as a mathematician. This book further presents itself: the four articles in the first book are the author's personal feelings and rational thinking about ancient books, and they are also the material intertwined with nostalgia and logic. If linguistic theory is a kind of metaphysics, then the version of ancient books can be regarded as a kind of practical learning to some extent. Mr. Yang's academic career of nearly 30 years can be said to be a leisurely walk between the two. This is also the difference between Mr. Yang's study of ancient books and other scholars.
Mr. Yang's research on ancient books not only focuses on the content, form and existence of ancient books, but also pays special attention to the combination of case study and comprehensive analysis of models. In terms of comprehensive analysis, the author wrote ten lectures about the knowledge, value and various aspects of the ancient book version. Unfortunately, the above articles can't be found in this book, probably because the collection is all gossip and pays attention to readability and interest. This book contains a brief analysis of the remnants of the first edition of the Ming Dynasty woodcut, and through rational thinking of the fragments, the ancient book version is promoted to the theoretical level. Thus promoting people's understanding of ancient books.
Only in the process of reading can we really find the problem. For the relationship between the version and the printed version of the same book, the academic circles often pay attention to the version, but not to the different printed versions of the same version. According to his own reading experience, the author puts forward some noteworthy problems. For example, there are 300 Song poems engraved by Zang, and there are incorrect words in different languages in the first printed edition, such as "how" means "suddenly" and "go" means "live", but the later printed edition has been changed. However, there were addenda in later printed editions, which added new mistakes, such as mistaking "exhibition" for "gu" and "late" for "harmony". Another example is Wang Siyin's dream window words A, B, C and D in the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, and there are differences in proofreading. At first, the printed version 16 was proofread, and 9 remained unchanged, 6 words in the white version remained unchanged, and 2 words in the yellow version remained unchanged. These subtle differences cannot be understood clearly without careful comparison.
In this regard, Qiao Xiuyan and Mr. Yang have the same view. Joe said, "Try to get in touch with the same edition and read as many different prints as possible. By observing the differences and changes between different prints, the concept of version is formed. Since the publication of a version, the printing conditions are different every time, and the contents of the revised version are constantly changing. If you want to fully understand, you can only read more different prints. For example, to understand a person, you need as much contact as possible. " As a scholar, Mr. Yang put forward that the ultimate goal of ancient books is reading through his personal experience of reading and collecting books. He wrote: "In addition to reading more catalogues and inscriptions of ancient books to expand your knowledge, the most important thing is to get in touch with real objects, observe carefully and gradually accumulate experience ... and the most important thing is to read more and think carefully about the rest ... No matter whether you appreciate or collect, you must read, and you can get real pleasure through reading. Comparing the differences between different versions of the same book, you will have a deeper understanding of the ancient version. " This is Mr. Yang's personal experience, which is worthy of reference for colleagues engaged in the study of ancient book versions.