Corpus-based contrastive studies of English and Chinese
By: by Richard Xiao and Tony McEnery.
Contributors: Xiao, Richard.
Series: Routledge advances in corpus linguistics -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780415992459
Subjects: Contrastive linguistics; Semantics, Comparative; Chinese language -- Aspect; English language -- Aspect
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aspect marking in English and Chinese; title: Temporal adverbials and telicity in English and Chinese; title: Quantifying constructions in English and Chinese; title: Passives in English and Chinese; title: Negation in English and Chinese: Variants and Variations; title: Negation in English and Chinese: special usages; title: Challenge and promise, and the way forward .