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 2022 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Hongzhi Xu
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
278 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2021 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-16-3410-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Computational linguistics
|
LSN: |
981-16-3410-6 |
Barcode: |
9789811634109 |
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