On the Grammatical Stylistics of Buddhist Texts: Syntactic Resources (the Copula shi; Anaphora & Epiphora)
The points examined in the paper are certain aspects of the grammatical stylistics of the Chinese texts of the 3rd - 10th centuries or, in other words, “the inner world of the language tools” of the texts mentioned. The aim of the paper is to reveal and bring to light specific syntactic resources (dif- ferent aspects of the copula shi and also such methods as anaphora and epiphora) as the ways by which the author’s message could be made as clear as possible.