1st Edition

Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles

By Jian Kang Loar Copyright 2019
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese plays an important role in interpreting the temporal information of a sentence. It is an important verbal category, which is concerned with the speaker’s viewpoint or perspective on a situation: whether the situation is presented as complete (perfective aspect) or as ongoing (imperfective aspect), etc. Learning to understand the aspect particles or markers, and use them... Read more

Contents

Preface

1 Basic Background Knowledge

2 The Perfective Aspects in Chinese

3 The Imperfective Aspects in Chinese

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jian Kang Loar is an Associate Chinese Professor at a prominent language institute in Monterey, California. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and she has been engaged in language teaching for her whole life. She specializes in Chinese grammar, primarily in the verbal aspectual system, the sentence information structure, and Chinese word order. She has published Chinese Syntactic Grammar: Functional and Conceptual Principles (2011) and Teaching Chinese Word Order (in Chinese) (2015). She is also versed in theories of foreign language teaching and learning.