Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study
Chinese language e-böcker
J. Benjamins Pub.
2004
EISBN 9789027230836
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. Introduction; 2. Two-component aspect theory; 3. Situation aspect; 4. The perfective aspects in Chinese; 5. The imperfective aspects in Chinese; 6. Aspect marking in English and Chinese; 7. From the study of aspect to contrastive grammar; Bibliography; Index; The series Studies in Language Companion Series.
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.
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.
