33.3890, Books: The Compositionality of Mandarin Aspect: Mo

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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:25:37
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Compositionality of Mandarin Aspect: Mo

 


Title: The Compositionality of Mandarin Aspect 
Subtitle: A Parallel Translation Corpus Study 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-compositionality-of-mandarin-aspect-a-parallel-translation-corpus-study 


Author: Chou Mo

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934155 Pages: 365 Price: Europe EURO 38


Abstract:

Mandarin Chinese does not grammaticalize tense, but makes abundant use of
aspectual distinctions in the lexicon and grammar. The way it shapes reference
to time and events is consequently very different from that in European
languages. This dissertation studies the compositional interpretation of
Mandarin aspect, grounded in empirical data from a parallel corpus. The corpus
consists of a French source text and translations to a number of European
languages and to Mandarin, allowing the author to use European tense-aspect
distinctions as a probe into the Mandarin aspectual system. The corpus data
provide empirical support for claims made in the literature about zhe
(imperfective marker), zai (progressive marker), and guo (experiential perfect
marker). They also provide support for the hypothesis that aspectually
unmarked sentences have a stative interpretation by default, while eventive
interpretations must use overt aspectual expressions. In the last part of the
thesis, the author builds a semantic analysis of so-called resultative verb
constructions and their competitor, known as post-verbal le. Resultative verb
constructions combine the verb with a resultative complement to produce a
telic event plus a result state at the interface between lexicon and syntax.
Post-verbal le is an aspectual marker that leads to a perfective or
resultative perfect interpretation depending on the kind of eventuality
description it combines with. The dissertation finds that Mandarin establishes
more complex aspectual distinctions than the perfective/imperfective or
progressive/non-progressive dichotomies in European languages, and that
parallel corpus data can be fruitfully used to bring out the relevant
differences.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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