03081nam 22005054a 450 991081659460332120240513072833.01-282-16014-1978661216014190-272-9501-8(CKB)1000000000552921(MiAaPQ)EBC622249(Au-PeEL)EBL622249(CaPaEBR)ebr10254982(CaONFJC)MIL216014(OCoLC)463174475(EXLCZ)99100000000055292120040913d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAspect in Mandarin Chinese a corpus-based study /Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub.c2004x, 303 p. illStudies in language companion series,0165-7763 ;v. 7390-272-3083-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index.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.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.Studies in language companion series ;v. 73.Chinese languageAspectChinese languageAspect.495.1/563Xiao Richard611301McEnery Tony1964-290737MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816594603321Aspect in Mandarin Chinese4100824UNINA