The Chinese Aspectual System - Theory and Computation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book presents a theoretical study on aspect in Chinese, including both situation and viewpoint aspects. Unlike previous studies, which have largely classified linguistic units into different situation types, this study defines a set of ontological event types that are conceptually universal and on the basis of which different languages employ various linguistic devices to describe such events. To do so, it focuses on a particular component of events, namely the viewpoint aspect. It includes and discusses a wealth of examples to show how such ontological events are realized in Chinese. In addition, the study discusses how Chinese modal verbs and adverbs affect the distribution of viewpoint aspects associated with certain situation types. In turn, the book demonstrates how the proposed linguistic theory can be used in a computational context. Simply identifying events in terms of the verbs and their arguments is insufficient for real situations such as understanding the factivity and the logical/temporal relations between events. The proposed framework offers the possibility of analyzing events in Chinese text, yielding deep semantic information.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Corpora and Intercultural Studies, 8
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Hongzhi Xu
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-16-3407-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics
LSN:	981-16-3407-6
Barcode:	9789811634079

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