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.
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₹6,234.00Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
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Weight | 1 kg |
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Dimensions | 22 × 15 × 2 cm |
Book Author | Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery |
Edition | 1st |
Format | Hardback |
ISBN | 9789027230836 |
Language | English |
Publication Year | |
Pages | 320 |
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