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This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Chinese is more challenging yet promising. The main theme of this book lies in its focus on cross-linguistic contrast of aspect-related grammatical categories, or, grammatical categories that contribute to aspectual meaning - both situation aspect at the semantic level and viewpoint aspect at the grammatical level - in English and Chinese. The unique strength of this volume lies in that it is first corpus-based book contrasting English and Chinese. Given that the state of the art in language studies is to use corpora, the significance of the marriage between contrastive studies and the corpus methodology in this book is not to be underestimated.

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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415992451

ISBN-139780415992459

eBay Product ID (ePID)70185963

Product Key Features

Number of Pages202 Pages

Publication NameCorpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Chinese, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Référence, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2010

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorTony Mcenery, Richard Xiao

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesRoutledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

Length0.9in

Height2.2in

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LCCN2010-000745

Reviews"This book is no doubt a fascinating contribution to corpus linguistics, linguistic theory, and a cross-linguistic analysis of aspect-related grammatical categories of the two typologically dissimilar languages." - Chinese Language and Dialogue, Vol 1:2 (2010)

Dewey Edition22

Target AudienceCollege Audience

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal420.188

Lc Classification NumberP134.M34 2010

Table of Content1. Introduction 2. Aspect Marking in English and Chinese 3. Temporal Adverbials and Telicity in English and Chinese 4. Quantifying Constructions in English and Chinese 5. Passives in English and Chinese 6. Negation in English and Chinese: Variants and Variations 7. Negation in English and Chinese: Special Usages 8. Challenge and Promise, and the Way Forward