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Title: A Contrastive Study of Aspectuality in German, English, and Chinese

A Contrastive Study of Aspectuality in German, English, and Chinese

by Lihua Zhang (Author)
©1995 Others XVI, 240 Pages
Linguistics
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
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.

Biographical notes

Lihua Zhang (Author)

The Author: Lihua Zhang studied German at Fudan University and subsequently joined the faculty of Tongji University in China. Shortly after finishing her teacher training at the Sprachcolleg of Carl Duisberg in Germany, she studied at the University of Alberta in Canada where she received an M.A. Dr. Zhang received a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley.

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