The Chinese aspectual system : theory and computation / Hongzhi Xu.
Xu, Hongzhi.
2021
PL1235
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Title The Chinese aspectual system : theory and computation / Hongzhi Xu.
Author Xu, Hongzhi.
ISBN 9789811634086 (electronic bk.)
9811634084 (electronic bk.)
9811634076
9789811634079
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3408-6
Publication Details Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-16-3408-6 doi
Call Number PL1235
Dewey Decimal Classification 495.15
Summary 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 2, 2021).
Series Corpora and intercultural studies ; v. 8.
Available in Other Form Chinese aspectual system.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Previous Studies
Chapter 3. Event Structure and Event Types
Chapter 4. Semantics of Aspectual Markers and Negators in Chinese
Chapter 5. Formal Representation of Aspect
Chapter 6. Annotating a Chinese Corpus for Aspectual Study
Chapter 7. Automatic Aspectual Classification Chinese Sentences.

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