Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based StudyRichard Xiao, Tony McEnery John Benjamins Publishing, 1. jan. 2004 - 303 sider 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. |
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Twocomponent aspect theory | 13 |
Situation aspect 3353 | 33 |
The perfective aspects in Chinese | 89 |
The imperfective aspects in Chinese | 181 |
Aspect marking in English and Chinese | 245 |
From the study of aspect to contrastive grammar | 281 |
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