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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Richard XiaoTony McEnery
其他書名
A corpus-based study
出版John Benjamins Publishing, 2004-11-29
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN90272950189789027295019
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pb05AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.