The Semantics of the Inchoative and Cessative Aspects in Mandarin and Classical Chinese
Title | The Semantics of the Inchoative and Cessative Aspects in Mandarin and Classical Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Heinz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Chinese language |
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Analogy, Levelling, Markedness
Title | Analogy, Levelling, Markedness PDF eBook |
Author | Aditi Lahiri |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110175523 |
Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. A traditional umbrella category of change in systems is that of analogy. Somewhat less sanctioned, markedness is a basic relation shaping the structure of systems, in phonology as well as morphology.
語言暨語言學
Title | 語言暨語言學 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Chinese language |
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Title | Aspect in Mandarin Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Xiao |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027230836 |
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.
Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990
Title | Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990 PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Polansky |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 1096 |
Release | 1998-10-15 |
Genre | Education |
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A guide to the thesis literature on China and Inner Asia written between 1976 and 1990. Includes more than 10,000 entries for dissertations in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, theology, engineering and other disciplines. Entries are grouped in topical chapters and each entry includes bibliographic information and an abstract.
Aspects of Classical Chinese Syntax
Title | Aspects of Classical Chinese Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Harbsmeier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Chinese language |
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Flexibility in the Parts-of-Speech System of Classical Chinese
Title | Flexibility in the Parts-of-Speech System of Classical Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Linlin Sun |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2020-02-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110660792 |
Based on empirical data from five classical texts, this study investigates flexibility of parts of speech in Classical Chinese. The findings suggest that flexibility in a parts-of-speech system can only be fully understood by integrating a wide range of aspects. The components needed to account for it include constructions, semantics, metonymies, metaphors, pragmatic implicatures – and world knowledge as reflected within a given culture.