Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery.
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TextSeries: Studies in language companion series ; v. 73.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789027295019
- 9027295018
- 9789027230836
- 9027230838
- 495.1/563 22
- PL1235 .X53 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index.
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.
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