| Title:
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ASPECT IN MANDARIN CHINESE
A CORPUS-BASED STUDY |
| By: |
Richard Xiao, Anthony M. McEnery |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£97.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027230838 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027230836 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
29 November, 2004 |
| Series: |
Studies in Language Companion Series 73 |
| Pages: |
315 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |