[Corpora-List] New book

From: Mcenery, Tony (a.mcenery@lancaster.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 14:42:54 MET

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    Dear All,

    Slightly vulgar to advertise in this way, but I thought some of you may
    be interested in a new book which Richard Xiao and I have written,
    published by John Benjamins. Details below. Best,

    Tony

    Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
     
    URL http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2073

        
    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.



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