The Discovery of Aspect: A Heuristic Parallel Corpus Study of Ingressive, Continuative and Resumptive Viewpoint Aspect
Languages differ in how systematically and obligatorily they encode conceptual categories such as tense and aspect. By drawing on large parallel corpora, these differences can be exploited heuristically: expressive obligatoriness and the systematicity of a conceptual category in one language can function as a probe for other languages that do not (evidently) encode it. This study applies this method—called heuristic translation mining (HTM)—to viewpoint aspect in Mandarin (an aspect-oriented language) and Dutch (a non-aspect-oriented language). Specifically, it takes the Mandarin aspect marker... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | viewpoint aspect / ingressive aspect / continuative aspect / resumptive aspect / parallel corpus / Mandarin / Dutch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28588156 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7030158 |