A Contrastive Study of Aspectuality in German, English, and Chinese
©1995
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XVI,
240 Pages
Series:
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Volume 19
Summary
This study systematically contrasts aspectuality in German, English, and Chinese by investigating a set of rich data from literary texts. It uses a cognitive approach to examine aspectual semantics and relationships between meaning and form involving the expression and categorization of aspectual situations in three languages. It elucidates language-specific realizations of aspectual conceptualization in each of the three languages and reveals aspectually motivated regularities in translations among these languages.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 240
- Publication Year
- 1995
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820425054
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Aspectual semantics Aspectual situation Aspectual conceptualization Regularity Translation
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1995. XVI, 240 pp.
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