Author: Marjorie Kit-man Chan
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Proceedings of the Third Ohio State University Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 13-14 May 1988
Author: Marjorie Kit-man Chan
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek
Author: Toshikazu S. Foley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004178651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This study integrates three independent subjects - translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspect - for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is tested in two sample passages from John 18-19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a translation written according to the proposed theory.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004178651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This study integrates three independent subjects - translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspect - for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is tested in two sample passages from John 18-19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a translation written according to the proposed theory.
New Perspectives on Chinese Syntax
Author: Waltraud Paul
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110338777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110338777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research questions, because Chinese is often presented as an "exotic" language defying the analytical tools standardly used for other languages. This book sets out to demystify Chinese. It places controversial issues in the context of current syntactic theories and offers precise analyses based on a large array of representative data. Although the focus is on Modern Mandarin, earlier stages of Chinese are occasionally referred to in order to highlight striking continuities in its history. VO order is one such constant factor, thus invalidating the idea that Chinese went through a major word order change from OV to VO and back to OV. Another claim often made for Chinese as an isolating language, viz. the existence of an impoverished inventory of parts of speech, is likewise refuted. Other long debated issues addressed here include the relevance of the dichotomy topic vs subject prominence and the role of Chinese as a recurring exception to crosscategorial harmonies posited in typological studies.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Author: Richard Xiao
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027230836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-driven and corpus-based approaches to linguistics. The corpus-based model presented explores aspect at both the semantic and grammatical levels. At the semantic level a two-level model of situation aspect is proposed, which covers both the lexical and sentential levels, thus giving a better account of the compositional nature of situation aspect. At the grammatical level four perfective and four imperfective aspects in Chinese are explored in detail. This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027230836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-driven and corpus-based approaches to linguistics. The corpus-based model presented explores aspect at both the semantic and grammatical levels. At the semantic level a two-level model of situation aspect is proposed, which covers both the lexical and sentential levels, thus giving a better account of the compositional nature of situation aspect. At the grammatical level four perfective and four imperfective aspects in Chinese are explored in detail. This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria
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Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Prosody of Mandarin Chinese
Author: Xiao-nan Susan Shen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520097506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Through acoustic analysis of Mandarin Chinese intonation, the author finds that the intonation baseline moves up when intonation is shifted from assertive to interrogative; therefore, two baselines and two intonation layers must be reckoned with. Sentence intonation affects the tonal values and the tonal shapes of intrinsic lexical tones, though not beyond recognition. Tonal changes prove to be closely related to sentence intonation, which is superimposed simultaneously onto the utterance as a whole. The author's findings support the position of the movability of the intonation baseline and rectify some widely spread traditional claims concerning Mandarin Chinese prosody.
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Author: Berkeley Linguistics Society
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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中国语文教师学会学报
Author: Chinese Language Teachers Association
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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