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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464177103321

Autore

Meisterernst Barbara

Titolo

Tense and aspect in Han period Chinese : a linguistic analysis of the 'Shijì' / / edited by Barbara Meisterernst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039401-4

3-11-033954-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 274

Classificazione

EG 9050

Disciplina

495.15/6

Soggetti

Chinese language - History - Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D

Chinese language - To 600

Chinese language - Tense

Chinese language - Aspect

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) - History

Historical linguistics - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 General introduction -- 2 The category tense -- 3 The category aspect -- 4 Tense and aspect in Chinese -- 5 The syntactic and semantic analysis of temporal adverbials and duration phrases -- 6 The syntactic and semantic constraints of aspecto-temporal adverbs in the Shǐjì -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis. The book provides the first thorough investigation of the syntactic and semantic constraints of the linguistic categories tense and aspect and their relation with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese. The author uncovers fascinating details of a language with a highly restricted verbal morphology.