1st Edition
A Multiple-Corpora Approach to Chinese-English Contrastive Analysis
Introduction 1. Contrastive Linguistics: Contents, Issues, and Methods 2. Macroscopic Description of English and Chinese Language Features 3. An Analysis of Part-of-Speech Sequences in Mandarin Chinese and English 4. An Analysis of Prepositions in Mandarin Chinese and English 5. Reference Categories in English and Mandarin Chinese 6. Formation of Sentence Segments in English and Mandarin Chinese 7. Encoding of Events in English and Mandarin Chinese 8. Realizations of Pragmatic Markers in Mandarin Chinese and English 9. Prospects for Contrastive Studies
Biography
Hongwu QIN is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Qufu Normal University, China. His research interests include contrastive and translation studies of English and Chinese and corpus linguistics.
Lei KONG is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests include contrastive linguistics, typological studies, and digital foreign language teaching.
