Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles

by Jian Kang Loar

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 correctly, has always been one of the most difficult...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815367104
• ISBN13: 9780815367109
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"