Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Aspectual viewpoint and situation type in Mandarian Chinese

  • Published:
Journal of East Asian Linguistics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bonevac, Daniel and Carlota Smith (1993)Discourse Representation Theory: An Introduction and Handbook, unpublished ms., University of Texas at Austin.

  • Caenepeel, Mimo (1989)Aspect, Temporal Ordering and Perspective in Narrative Fiction, PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh.

  • Carlson, Greg (1977) “A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural,”Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 413–456.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chang, Vincent (1986)The Particle Le in Chinese Narrative Discourse: an Integrative Description, PhD dissertation, University of Florida.

  • Chao, Yuen-Ren (1968)A Grammar of Spoken Chinese, University of California Press, Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chu, Chauncy (1976) “Some Semantic Aspects of Action Verbs,”Lingua 40, 43–54.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chu, Chauncy (1983)A Reference Grammar of Mandarin, Peter Lang, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chu, Chauncy and Vincent Chang (1987) “The Discourse Function of the Verbal Suffix-le in Mandarin,”Journal Chinese Language Teachers Association 15, 309–333.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dowty, David (1977) “Towards a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English Imperfective Progressive,”Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 45–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dowty, David (1979)Word Meaning and Montague Grammar, Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dowty, David (1986) “The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?”Linguistics and Philosophy 9, 37–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heim, Irene (1982)The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases, Graduate Linguistic Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heim, Irene (1983) “File change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness,” in Bäurele, R., C. Schwarze, and A. von Stechow (eds.),Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language, de Gruyter, Berlin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heinämäki, Orvokki (1973)The Semantics of English Temporal Connectives, PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

  • Iljic, Robert (1978)L'Exploitation aspectuelle de la notion de franchissement en chinois contemporain, L'Harmattan, Paris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Iljic, Robert (1990) “The Verbal Stuffix-guo in Mandarin Chinese and, the Notion of Recurrence,”Lingua 81, 301–326.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamp, Hans (1981), “A Theory of Truth and Semantic Interpretation,” in H. Groenedijk, R. Janssen, and A. von Stokhof (eds.),Formal Methods in the Study of Language, Mathematisch Centrum Tracts, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamp, Hans (1985) “Context, Thought and Communication,”Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 85, 239–261.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamp, Hans and Christian Rohrer (1983) “Tense in Texts,” in R. Bauerle, C. Schwarze, and A. von Stechow (eds.),Meaning, Use and Interpretation of Language, de Gruyter, Berlin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamp, Hans and Christian Rohrer (1989)A Discourse Representation Theory Account of Tense in French: The Aspectual System of French. unpublished ms., University of Stuttgart.

  • Kamp, Hans and Uwe Reyle (1993)From Discourse to Logic, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenny, Anthony (1963)Action, Emotion and Will Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krifka, Manfred (1987)Nominal Reference and Temporal Constitution: Toward a Semantics of Quantity, FNS-Bericht 17, Universität Tübingen.

  • Li, Charles and Sandra Thompson (1981)Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar, University of California Press, Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lu, J. H-T (1975) “Resultative Verb Complements vs. Directional Verb Complements in Mandarin,”Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5, 276–313.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mourelatos, Alex (1978) “Events. Processes and States,”Linguistics and Philosophy 2. 415–434.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paris, Marie-Claude (1981)Problèmes de syntax et de semantique en linguistique chinoise, Collège de France, Paris.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paris. Marie-Claude (1988) “L'expression de la durée en mandarin,”Temps et aspects, Actes du colloque CNRS, Paris, October 1985.

  • Partee, Barbara (1984) “Nominal and Temporal Anaphora,”Linguistics and Philosophy 7. 243–286.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reichenbach, Hans (1947)Elements of Symbolic Logic, Macmillan, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rohsenow, John (1978)Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect in Mandarin Chinese, PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan.

  • Rosch, Eleanor (1978) “Principles of Categorization,” in E. Rosch and B. Lloyd (eds.).Categorization and Cognition, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ryle, Gilbert (1947)The Concept of Mind, Barnes and Noble, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Carlota S. (1983) “A Theory of Aspectual Choice,”Language 59, 479–501.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Carlota S. (1990) “Event Types in Mandarin,”Linguistics 28, 309–336.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Carlota S. (1991)The Parameter of Aspect, Kluwer-Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spanos, George (1979) “Contemporary Chinese Use ofLe: a Survey and a Pragmatic Proposal,”Journal Chinese Teachers Language Assoc. 14.1, 36–70, 14.2, 47–102.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, Barry (1977) “Tense and Continuity,”Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 199–200.

    Google Scholar 

  • Teng, Shou-Hsin (1979) “Progressive Aspect in Chinese,”Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages, No. 11.

  • Tung, P. C. and D. Pollard (1982)Colloquial Chinese, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vendler, Zeno (1967)Linguistics in Philosophy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

    Google Scholar 

  • Verkuyl, Henk (1972)On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects, Foundations of Language Supplementary Series, Volume 15, Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vlach, Frank (1981) “The Semantics of the Progressive,” in P. Tedeschi and A. Zaenen (eds.),Tense and Aspect: Syntax and Semantics 14, Academic Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Whorf, Benjamin (1956)Language, Thought and Reality, Wiley, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yeh, Meng (1992) “The Experiential Marker and Quantification,” in V. Samilan (ed.),Proceedings of the 22nd Western Conference in Linguistics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, III.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yeh, Meng (1993a) “Stative Situations and the Imperfective-zhe in Mandarin,”Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 28, 69–98.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yeh, Meng (1993b)Experiential Constructions: A Quantificational Approach, PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, 78712, Austin, TX

    Carlota S. Smith

Authors
  1. Carlota S. Smith
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

I would like to thank Jeannette Faurot, Haihua Pan, Li Ping, and Meng Yeh for many interesting discussions, judgments, and examples. I also thank Meng Yeh for careful reading of the manuscript, and the anonymous readers for their comments.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Smith, C.S. Aspectual viewpoint and situation type in Mandarian Chinese. J East Asian Linguis 3, 107–146 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01736124

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01736124

Keywords

Search

Navigation