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The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse: A Contrastive Study

The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse: A Contrastive Study

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Linguistics

ISBN10: 9813340398
ISBN13: 9789813340398
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 3 2021
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Translocative Motion Events (TMEs), which possess Macro-Event Property (MEP). It addresses all the issues critical to understanding TMEs in English and Chinese, from event segmentation, MEP principles and the conceptual structure of TMEs and their constituents, to the representation of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground. The book argues that the corpus-based alignment for the TME segmentation in both languages, the parameters of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground and their relevant statistical description are particularly important for understanding English and Chinese TMEs. The linguistic materialization of Actant, Ground, Path and Motion, together with a wealth of tables and figures, offers convincing evidence to support the typological classification of English and Chinese. The book's suggestions regarding the Talmyan bipartite typology and Bohnemeyer's MEP contribute to the advancement of TME studies and language typology, and help learners to understand motion events and English-Chinese typological similarities and differences.

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