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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828700403321

Autore

McEnery Tony <1964->

Titolo

Corpus-based contrastive studies of English and Chinese / / by Richard Xiao and Tony McEnery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-94489-3

1-136-94490-7

1-282-65961-8

9786612659614

0-203-84795-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in corpus linguistics ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

XiaoRichard

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

Contrastive linguistics

Semantics, Comparative

Chinese language - Aspect

English language - Aspect

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Aspect Marking in English and Chinese; 3 Temporal Adverbials and Telicity in English and Chinese; 4 Quantifying Constructions in English and Chinese; 5 Passives in English and Chinese; 6 Negation in English and Chinese: Variants and Variations; 7 Negation in English and Chinese: Special Usages; 8 Challenge and Promise, and the Way Forward; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Chinese is more challenging yet promising. The main theme of this book lies in its focus on cross-linguistic contrast of aspect-related grammatical categories, or,



grammatical categories that contribute to aspectual meanin