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Adverbial Clauses in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-based Study

By May L-Y Wong

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Year
2013
ISBN
3034311206, 9783034311205
ISSN
0721-3352
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2302468 bytes)
Series
Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes 374
Pages
334\336
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-11-29 13:22:55
Языки и языкознание;Китайский язык;Грамматика

Description

What are adverbial clauses in Chinese? Do they all have subjects as their counterparts do in English? How do the semantic domains of adverbial clauses interact with the distribution of subjects? How do Chinese corpora help us explore these intriguing questions? The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usefulness of corpus linguistics as a methodology in grammar studies. A problem-oriented tagging approach has been used to enable the exploration of adverbial clauses in the corpus and to identify eleven semantically based classes of adverbial clauses. While it is a well-known fact that Chinese adverbial clauses (CACs) are overtly marked by a subordinating conjunction, their subjects can be left unexpressed and recovered in the prior discourse. By analysing naturally occurring spoken and written samples from various corpora, the author examines this intriguing phenomenon of overt and non-overt subjects in adverbial clauses.

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