Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 303 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 495.1/563 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chinese language - Aspect |
| Altri autori: |
McEneryTony <1964->
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Aspect in Mandarin Chinese |
| ISBN: | 1-282-16014-1 |
| 9786612160141 | |
| 90-272-9501-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816594603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 73.