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Date: 27-Dec-2004
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: Xiao, McEnery


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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:03:36
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: Xiao, McEnery


Title: Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Subtitle: A corpus-based study
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 73

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/


Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2073


Author: Richard Zhonghua Xiao, Lancaster University
Author: Tony McEnery, Lancaster University

Hardback: ISBN: 1588116018 Pages: x, 305 pp. Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230838 Pages: x, 305 pp. Price: Europe EURO 115.00


Abstract:

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.


Table of contents

Preface  vii
Abbreviations and symbols  ix
Introduction  1-12
Two-component aspect theory  13-32
Situation aspect  33-88
The perfective aspects in Chinese  89-180
The imperfective aspects in Chinese  181-244
Aspect marking in English and Chinese  245-280
>From the study of aspect to constractive grammar  281-286
Bibliography  287-296
Index  297-303



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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


Written In: English  (ENG)

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