Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery

• Autore: Xiao Richard
• 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->
• 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: 9786612160141; 9781282160149; 1282160141; 9789027295019; 9027295018
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974005503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 73.