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UNINA9910816594603321 |
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Autore |
Xiao Richard |
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Titolo |
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-16014-1 |
9786612160141 |
90-272-9501-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 73 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Chinese language - Aspect |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Introduction -- Notes -- 2. Two-component aspect theory -- Notes -- 3. Situation aspect -- Notes -- 4. The perfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 5. The imperfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 6. Aspect marking in English and Chinese -- Notes -- 7. From the study of aspect to contrastive grammar -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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detail. This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature. |
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