五卷本的“汉语史断代研究丛书”历时十载已全部面世了。这是汉语言学界的一件盛事,专家们誉之为“汉语史研究的光辉篇章”！ 汉语是世界上使用人数最多的一种语言。由于它历史悠久,变化纷繁,而且史籍浩瀚,所以研究汉语史一直是汉语研究中最艰巨的部类之一。程湘清、何乐士等十余位语言学研究的专家知难而进,精诚合作,勇于开拓,早在70年代末就着手进行汉语发展史的研究工作。丛书的作者们认识到,要想建立系统、详备的汉语发展史,就必须首先从断代专书专题研究开始,只有 Five volumes of “History of Chinese History Series” lasted for ten years has been published. This is a great event in the Chinese linguistics community, and experts have praised it as “a glorious chapter in the study of Chinese history”! Chinese is the most commonly used language in the world. Because of its long history and varied landscapes, as well as vast history books, studying Chinese history has always been one of the most difficult parts of Chinese studies. Cheng Xiangqing, He Loshi and other experts in more than ten linguistic studies got along with admiration for cooperation and courage. As early as the late 1970s, they started to carry out research work on the history of Chinese language development. The authors of the series realized that in order to establish a systematic and detailed history of the development of Chinese language, we must first start with the specialization of the monographs and only