UID:
almahu_9949178845102882
Format:
x, 303 p. :
,
ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-16014-1
,
9786612160141
,
90-272-9501-8
Series Statement:
Studies in language companion series, v. 73
Content:
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.
Note:
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Introduction -- Notes -- 2. Two-component aspect theory -- Notes -- 3. Situation aspect -- Notes -- 4. The perfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 5. The imperfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 6. Aspect marking in English and Chinese -- Notes -- 7. From the study of aspect to contrastive grammar -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-3083-8
Language:
English
