Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the ...Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the past situation. In contrast to English, Chinese does not have perfect constructions. English perfective aspect is an actual aspect indication: duration and completion of an action or situation. According to different reference time, the actual aspect can be divided into past actuality, present actuality and future actuality. This paper will undoubtedly contribute to the study of tense-aspect in Chinese. The study of English perfective aspect is conducive to the comparative study and translation of aspect in English and Chinese.展开更多
In the research on the Chinese temporal system,Chen(1988)proposed the ternary structure of Chinese temporal system.Based on the ternary structure of the Chinese temporal system,many researches have focused on discussi...In the research on the Chinese temporal system,Chen(1988)proposed the ternary structure of Chinese temporal system.Based on the ternary structure of the Chinese temporal system,many researches have focused on discussing Chinese aspect system.Compared with the research on aspect,there are fewer studies on Chinese verbal situations,such as Ma(1981),Deng(1985),Dai(1997),etc.,which are all based on Vendler’s(1967)four categories of verbal situations.And compared with verbal situation,there are fewer studies on phase.Most researchers believe that phase and verbal situations are the same concept.However,this article believes that in the study of Chinese temporal system,we should first distinguish between phase and verbal situations,and then compare with aspect.Based on the distinction between phase and verbal situations,this article combines the situation and verbal aspect suffix“LE”,which is also an aspect marker,and tries to sum up the relationship between the situation and“LE”.展开更多
Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tongue which is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin was not well expressed.The inner aspire of this pa...Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tongue which is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin was not well expressed.The inner aspire of this paper is to offer a complete account of tense,aspect,mood and aktionsart structures of the Mesqan tongue.The paper is expressive in character,as the lessons are mostly worried with telling what is really being in the tongue,and mostly rely on main linguistic facts.The linguistic facts,i.e.the elicited grammatical facts regarding tense,aspect,mood and aktionsart,were composed from local speakers of the tongue during 12 months of fieldwork mannered among 2011 and 2012 in four Mesqan villages and in Butajira,the managerial hub of the Mesqan Woreda.The perfective aspect in the tongue emphasizes the endpoint of the oral state with dynamic verbs,but the imperfective aspect relates with the lexical semantics of the verb,which can be practical when their purposes with stative and dynamic verbs are evaluated.Concerning tense,the past and the non-past tense in the tongue are distinguished by assisting verbs and a verb in the imperfective aspect is able to happen with states in the past and in the non-past,i.e.present or future.Future time can also be uttered by an anticipated act throughout the grouping of the future.In addition,an action happening in the past and still around in the tongue is marked by a zero morpheme in the present perfect.Concerning mood,the language has agent-oriented moods that are articulated by verb inflection,and speaker-oriented moods that are articulated by a periphrastic structure.Regarding aktionsart that denotes a specific phase in a verbal condition,like period,regularity,etc.Mesqan has two aktionsarten which are noticeable by periphrastic structures,that is the progressive and the prospective.展开更多
文摘Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the past situation. In contrast to English, Chinese does not have perfect constructions. English perfective aspect is an actual aspect indication: duration and completion of an action or situation. According to different reference time, the actual aspect can be divided into past actuality, present actuality and future actuality. This paper will undoubtedly contribute to the study of tense-aspect in Chinese. The study of English perfective aspect is conducive to the comparative study and translation of aspect in English and Chinese.
文摘In the research on the Chinese temporal system,Chen(1988)proposed the ternary structure of Chinese temporal system.Based on the ternary structure of the Chinese temporal system,many researches have focused on discussing Chinese aspect system.Compared with the research on aspect,there are fewer studies on Chinese verbal situations,such as Ma(1981),Deng(1985),Dai(1997),etc.,which are all based on Vendler’s(1967)four categories of verbal situations.And compared with verbal situation,there are fewer studies on phase.Most researchers believe that phase and verbal situations are the same concept.However,this article believes that in the study of Chinese temporal system,we should first distinguish between phase and verbal situations,and then compare with aspect.Based on the distinction between phase and verbal situations,this article combines the situation and verbal aspect suffix“LE”,which is also an aspect marker,and tries to sum up the relationship between the situation and“LE”.
文摘Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tongue which is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin was not well expressed.The inner aspire of this paper is to offer a complete account of tense,aspect,mood and aktionsart structures of the Mesqan tongue.The paper is expressive in character,as the lessons are mostly worried with telling what is really being in the tongue,and mostly rely on main linguistic facts.The linguistic facts,i.e.the elicited grammatical facts regarding tense,aspect,mood and aktionsart,were composed from local speakers of the tongue during 12 months of fieldwork mannered among 2011 and 2012 in four Mesqan villages and in Butajira,the managerial hub of the Mesqan Woreda.The perfective aspect in the tongue emphasizes the endpoint of the oral state with dynamic verbs,but the imperfective aspect relates with the lexical semantics of the verb,which can be practical when their purposes with stative and dynamic verbs are evaluated.Concerning tense,the past and the non-past tense in the tongue are distinguished by assisting verbs and a verb in the imperfective aspect is able to happen with states in the past and in the non-past,i.e.present or future.Future time can also be uttered by an anticipated act throughout the grouping of the future.In addition,an action happening in the past and still around in the tongue is marked by a zero morpheme in the present perfect.Concerning mood,the language has agent-oriented moods that are articulated by verb inflection,and speaker-oriented moods that are articulated by a periphrastic structure.Regarding aktionsart that denotes a specific phase in a verbal condition,like period,regularity,etc.Mesqan has two aktionsarten which are noticeable by periphrastic structures,that is the progressive and the prospective.