Author: Minglang Zhou
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Category : Hsiang dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Richard Xiao
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027230836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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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.

Author: Toshikazu S. Foley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004178651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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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.

Author: Martin Pütz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027237069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that has met with so much resistance among linguists over the last few decades. Not only did Whorf present his views much more subtly than most people would believe, but he also dealt with a great number of other issues in his work. Taking Whorf's own notion of linguistic relativity as a starting point, this volume explores the relation between language, mind and experience through its historical development, Whorf's own writing, its misinterpretations, various theoretical and methodological issues and a closer look at a few specific issues in his work.

Author: William S.-Y. Wang
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Ruth Chang
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Dr. Georg Woodman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462813976
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Its a social statement; exposing the cultural bondage to traditions over common sense, logic and 21st-century-order. The obvious ineffectiveness of government, the lackadaisical enforcements of rules and laws, the selfishness of the individual superseding social orders. The beyond-time mentality over the salvages of most modern innovations - all in total contrast to the other. The daily lifes effect by traditional thinking; yet the attempt to link to the 21st century, in absurd attempts. In my conclusion Id say that Taiwan is still clearly a 3rd-world-country, however willing to pirate for all the modern gadgets, yet unable/willing to surrender outdated traditions and customs. And, in most, not willing to socially unite to and as one (society). Individualism is (still) way too prevalent to announce Taiwan a country and a society.

Author: Julie Lee Wei
Publisher:
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Category : Calendar, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Hsiang-Hua Chang
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Claudia Michele Thompson
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Category : Chinese characters
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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