Screen LibraryEncoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese : a cognitive functional study /
"This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated to the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained...
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in Chinese language and discourse (SCLD),
volume 11 |
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| Summary: |
"This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated to the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained classification and diagnostics of Chinese motion morphemes from the perspective of scale structure, but also the first to more comprehensively account for the ordering of Chinese motion morphemes. The findings of this study will not only enrich the literature on motion events, but more importantly, fur |
| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 209 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-203) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789027202147 9027202141 |
| Index Number: | PL1893 |
| CLC: | H13 |
| Call Number: | H13/L735 |
| Contents: | Encoding motion in Chinese -- "Manner vs. path" or "manner + path"? -- Classifying Chinese motion morphemes -- Ordering Chinese motion morphemes -- Moving beyond motion (verbs). |