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The segmentation and representation of translocative motion events in English and Chinese discourse : a contrastive study / Guofeng Zheng.

9789813340374 (electronic book)
9813340371 (electronic book)
9813340363
9789813340367

Singapore : Springer ; [Shanghai] : Jintly published with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, [2021]

English

1 online resource (202 pages)

10.1007/978-981-33-4037-4 doi

P120.M65

415

This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Translocative Motion Events (TMEs), which possess Macro-Event Property (MEP). It addresses all the issues critical to understanding TMEs in English and Chinese, from event segmentation, MEP principles and the conceptual structure of TMEs and their constituents, to the representation of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground. The book argues that the corpus-based alignment for the TME segmentation in both languages, the parameters of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground and their relevant statistical description are particularly important for understanding English and Chinese TMEs. The linguistic materialization of Actant, Ground, Path and Motion, together with a wealth of tables and figures, offers convincing evidence to support the typological classification of English and Chinese. The books suggestions regarding the Talmyan bipartite typology and Bohnemeyers MEP contribute to the advancement of TME studies and language typology, and help learners to understand motion events and English-Chinese typological similarities and differences.

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