Aspect in Mandarin Chinese :: a corpus-based study /

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 a...

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1. Verfasser: Xiao, Richard
Weitere Verfasser: McEnery, Tony, 1964-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series ; v. 73.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index.
ISBN:9789027295019
9027295018
9789027230836
9027230838
9781588116017
1588116018
1282160141
9781282160149
9786612160141
6612160144
ISSN:0165-7763 ;