Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : A corpus-based study PDF
by Xiao Richard Xiao, McEnery Tony McEnery
Part of the Studies in Language Companion Series series
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Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory.
This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings.
The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect.
In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-driven and corpus-based approaches to linguistics.
The corpus-based model presented explores aspect at both the semantic and grammatical levels.
At the semantic level a two-level model of situation aspect is proposed, which covers both the lexical and sentential levels, thus giving a better account of the compositional nature of situation aspect.
At the grammatical level four perfective and four imperfective aspects in Chinese are explored in detail.
This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:315 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:29/11/2004
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- ISBN:9789027295019
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:315 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:29/11/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027295019