Aspect in Mandarin Chinese (e-bog) af Tony McEnery, McEnery
Tony McEnery, McEnery (forfatter)

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese e-bog

948,41 DKK (inkl. moms 1185,51 DKK)
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, ...
E-bog 948,41 DKK
Forfattere Tony McEnery, McEnery (forfatter)
Udgivet 29 november 2004
Længde 315 sider
Genrer 2GDCM
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9789027295019
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.