30.812, Books: New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics: Meisterernst (ed.)

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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:04:02
From: Helen van der Stelt [Helen.vanderStelt at springer.com]
Subject: New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics: Meisterernst (ed.)

 


Title: New Perspectives on Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical
Linguistics 
Series Title: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistcs  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811319471 


Editor: Barbara Meisterernst

Hardback: ISBN:  9789811319471 Pages: 250 Price: Europe EURO 99.99


Abstract:

This book presents new perspectives on the study of Aspect and Modality in
Chinese Historical Linguistics. Based on the international Workshop on Aspect
and Modality in Chinese, the book includes the latest research findings in the
field to make them available not only to specialists in Classical and Buddhist
Chinese, but also to researchers and students of general linguistics and of
the universals of language. It also discusses different aspects of the AM
(Aspect-Modality) and the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Modality) system of Chinese. It
provides a comprehensive overview of both of the universally related systems
of aspect and modality. The first part of the book focuses on aspectual
features of Chinese; these include basic studies on the syntactic
representation of the aspectual structure of the verb phrase in Archaic
Chinese, the aspectual function of different object constructions and their
development, temporal features of the verb phrase, and the aspectual functions
of no minalization processes. The second part includes articles highlighting
different aspects of the modal system or the interplay between tense, aspect
and modality in Chinese, including a survey on the history of studies on
modality in Chinese and the modal and temporal aspectual/markers indicating
future meanings, a specialized study on modal deontic verbs in the Buddhist
Vinaya texts, the modal function of rhetorical questions in Buddhist Chinese,
and a study on the diachronic development of the aspectual and modal system in
Chinese.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Old (och)


Written In: English  (eng)

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