Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese plays an important role in interpreting the temporal information of a sentence. It is an important verbal category, which is concerned with the speaker's viewpoint or perspective on a situation: whether the situation is presented as complete (perfective aspect) or as ongoing (imperfective aspect), etc.

List of contents

Contents
Preface
1 Basic Background Knowledge
2 The Perfective Aspects in Chinese
3 The Imperfective Aspects in Chinese
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jian Kang Loar is an Associate Chinese Professor at a prominent language institute in Monterey, California. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and she has been engaged in language teaching for her whole life. She specializes in Chinese grammar, primarily in the verbal aspectual system, the sentence information structure, and Chinese word order. She has published Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles (2011) and Teaching Chinese Word Order (in Chinese) (2015). She is also versed in theories of foreign language teaching and learning.

Summary

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese plays an important role in interpreting the temporal information of a sentence. It is an important verbal category, which is concerned with the speaker’s viewpoint or perspective on a situation: whether the situation is presented as complete (perfective aspect) or as ongoing (imperfective aspect), etc.

Product details

• Authors: Jian Kang Loar, Loar Jian Kang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815367109
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-6710-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Chinese, Grammar & vocabulary, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation