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The Chinese Aspectual System: Theory and Computation
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Series: Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Book 8
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ISBN10: 9811634106
ISBN13: 9789811634109
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 24 2022
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789811634109
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 24 2022
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. What is Aspect 1.1.1. Definition of Aspect 1.1.2. Studies on Chinese Aspectual Markers 1.1.3. Studies on Aspectual Classification 1.1.4. Situation Aspect vs. Viewpoint Aspect 1.2. The Goal of the Study 1.3. Methodology1.4. Thesis Organization
Chapter 2. Previous Studies2.1. Situation Aspect and Vendler's Classes 2.2. Aspectual Classification 2.2.1. Feature-Based Methodology 2.2.2. The Conceptual Structure 2.2.3. The Generative Lexicon 2.2.4. MARVS 2.3. Diagnostics for aspectual classification 2.4. Difficulties in Aspectual Classification 2.4.1. Degree Achievements 2.4.2. More than Degree Achievements 2.4.3. Achievement vs. Accomplishment 2.4.4. The term 'telicity' 2.4.5. Intention and Perception 2.5. Aspectual Studies on Chinese 2.6. Summary
1.1. What is Aspect 1.1.1. Definition of Aspect 1.1.2. Studies on Chinese Aspectual Markers 1.1.3. Studies on Aspectual Classification 1.1.4. Situation Aspect vs. Viewpoint Aspect 1.2. The Goal of the Study 1.3. Methodology1.4. Thesis Organization
Chapter 2. Previous Studies2.1. Situation Aspect and Vendler's Classes 2.2. Aspectual Classification 2.2.1. Feature-Based Methodology 2.2.2. The Conceptual Structure 2.2.3. The Generative Lexicon 2.2.4. MARVS 2.3. Diagnostics for aspectual classification 2.4. Difficulties in Aspectual Classification 2.4.1. Degree Achievements 2.4.2. More than Degree Achievements 2.4.3. Achievement vs. Accomplishment 2.4.4. The term 'telicity' 2.4.5. Intention and Perception 2.5. Aspectual Studies on Chinese 2.6. Summary
Chapter 3. Event Structure and Event Types3.1. Ontological Situation Types 3.1.1. Representation of Ontological Situation Types 3.1.2. Progressive is Stative 3.1.3. Primitives of Events 3.1.4. Theoretically Existing Situation Types 3.2. Linguistic Events 3.2.1. Viewpoint Aspect 3.2.2. Linguistic Event: Combination of Situation and Viewpoint Aspect 3.2.3. What expresses the ontological situations and what to classify? 3.3. Where Is Telicity From? 3.3.1. Intentionality 3.3.2. Result 3.3.3. Perception and Prediction 3.3.4. Context 3.3.5. Summary of Telicity 3.4. Linguistic Event Types 3.4.1. Static State: ---- 3.4.2. Dynamic State: 3.4.3. Change of State: ==== 3.4.4. Semelfactive: 3.4.5. Accomplishment: == 3.4.6. Instantaneous Accomplishment: == 3.5. Constructions and Their Aspects 3.5.1 Resultative Verbal Complements (RVCs) 3.5.2. Resultative DE construction 3.5.3. Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) 3.5.4. V+(ZHE/LE/GUO)+O+(LE) 3.5.5. BA construction 3.5.6. BEI construction 3.6. Summary
Chapter 4. Semantics of Aspectual Markers and Negators in Chinese4.1. Introduction 4.2. Aspectual Operators 4.3. 了 LE 4.3.1. LE with static state 4.3.2. LE with dynamic state 4.3.3. LE with accomplishment 4.3.4. LE with achievement 4.3.5. The Two LEs: LE1 and LE2 4.3.6. LE is not a tense marker 4.3.7. Non-Aspectual LE 4.4. 着 zhe0 'ZHE', 在 zai4 'ZAI' and 正在 zheng4zai4 'ZAI' 4.4.1. The difference of 在 zai4 'ZAI' and 正在 zheng4zai4 'ZAI' 4.4.2. The Difference of Static State with and without ZHE and their relation with Negators 4.4.3. The difference of ZHE and LE in existential sentences 4.5. 过 guo4 'GUO' 4.5.1. Grammaticality and World Knowledge 4.5.2. Time Frame of GUO 4.5.3. The Truth Condition of GUO 4.6. Negations 4.6.1. 不 bu4 4.6.2. 没有 mei2you3 4.7. Summary
Chapter 5. Formal Representation of Aspect5.1. Introduction 5.1.1. Second Order Logic 5.1.2. Predicates and Parameters 5.1.3. Class, Instance and Subclass 5.1.4. Attributes, Functionalities and Habits 5.1.5. Instances of Situations 5.1.6. Multi-modal Predicates in Natural Language 5.2. The Basic Predicates Related to Time 5.3. Representations for O
Chapter 4. Semantics of Aspectual Markers and Negators in Chinese4.1. Introduction 4.2. Aspectual Operators 4.3. 了 LE 4.3.1. LE with static state 4.3.2. LE with dynamic state 4.3.3. LE with accomplishment 4.3.4. LE with achievement 4.3.5. The Two LEs: LE1 and LE2 4.3.6. LE is not a tense marker 4.3.7. Non-Aspectual LE 4.4. 着 zhe0 'ZHE', 在 zai4 'ZAI' and 正在 zheng4zai4 'ZAI' 4.4.1. The difference of 在 zai4 'ZAI' and 正在 zheng4zai4 'ZAI' 4.4.2. The Difference of Static State with and without ZHE and their relation with Negators 4.4.3. The difference of ZHE and LE in existential sentences 4.5. 过 guo4 'GUO' 4.5.1. Grammaticality and World Knowledge 4.5.2. Time Frame of GUO 4.5.3. The Truth Condition of GUO 4.6. Negations 4.6.1. 不 bu4 4.6.2. 没有 mei2you3 4.7. Summary
Chapter 5. Formal Representation of Aspect5.1. Introduction 5.1.1. Second Order Logic 5.1.2. Predicates and Parameters 5.1.3. Class, Instance and Subclass 5.1.4. Attributes, Functionalities and Habits 5.1.5. Instances of Situations 5.1.6. Multi-modal Predicates in Natural Language 5.2. The Basic Predicates Related to Time 5.3. Representations for O
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