The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse: A Contrastive Study 9813340363, 9789813340367

Table of contents :
About This Book
References
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Translocative Motion Event (TME)
1.1.1 Defining Event
1.1.2 TME
1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.2.1 Purpose of the Study
1.2.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Theoretical Framework and Research Methodology
1.3.1 Theoretical Framework
1.3.2 Research Methodology
1.4 Organization of the Research
References in English
2 MEP Principles and the Segmentation and Representation of TMEs
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Theoretical Review of Motion Event Typology
2.2.1 Talmyan Dichotomy Typology
2.2.2 Dichotomy or Trichotomy
2.3 Event Segmentation
2.3.1 Event Segmentation in Psychology
2.3.2 Event Segmentation in Linguistics
2.4 Principles of MEP
2.4.1 The Biuniqueness Constraint
2.4.2 The Macro-Event Linking Principle
2.4.3 The Referential Uniqueness Constraint
2.4.4 The Unique Vector Constraint
2.4.5 The Loss of MEP
2.5 The Segmentation of Complex Motion Events and TME Constructions with MEP
2.5.1 The Conceptual Structure and Types of Motion Event Path
2.5.2 Segmentation of Complex Motion Events
2.5.3 TME Constructions with MEP
2.6 Summary
References in English
3 Research Design and Data Tagging
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Constituents of TMEs and Their Parameters
3.3.1 Actant
3.3.2 Motion
3.3.3 Path
3.3.4 Ground
3.4 The Corpus Construction
3.4.1 The Parallel Translation Corpus
3.4.2 Sentence Selection and Tagging
3.4.3 Variables
3.5 Tertium Comparationis
3.5.1 A Brief Review of the Past TC Studies
3.5.2 TC for This Study
References in English
4 General Statistical Description of English and Chinese TME Constructions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Constituent Combinations in English and Chinese TME Constructions
4.2.1 MEP Sentences in English and Chinese Texts
4.2.2 Subevent Constituent Combinations in English and Chinese
4.3 Linguistic Expressions in English and Chinese TME Constructions
4.3.1 Who Is Moving
4.3.2 How to Move
4.3.3 Which Road to Follow
4.3.4 Where to Go
4.4 Summary
References in English
5 Contrasting the Representation of TMEs in English and Chinese
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Representation of English TMEs
5.2.1 English TMEs in the Original Texts
5.2.2 English TMEs in the Translated Texts
5.3 The Representation of Chinese TMEs
5.3.1 Chinese TMEs in the Original Texts
5.3.2 Chinese TMEs in Translated Texts
5.3.3 English and Chinese TME Constructions: A Comparison
5.4 Renditions of TMEs Between English and Chinese
5.4.1 From English Constructions to Chinese Constructions
5.4.2 From Chinese Constructions to English Constructions
5.5 The Representation of Motion Event Constituents in English and Chinese
5.5.1 The Representation of Actants
5.5.2 The Representation of Motion
5.5.3 The Representation of Path
5.5.4 The Representation of Grounds
5.5.5 English and Chinese TME Constituent Representation: A Comparison
5.6 Beyond Surface Representation
5.7 Summary
References in English
6 Conclusion
References in English
Appendices
Appendix 1: Actant
Appendix 2: Motion
Appendix 3: Path
Appendix 4: Ground
Appendix 5: Event composition
References in English

Polecaj historie

The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse: A Contrastive Study [1st ed.] 9789813340367, 9789813340374

This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Tran

331 57 6MB Read more

A Contrastive Grammar of English and Arabic

2,180 162 16MB Read more

The Colon Hypothesis: Word order, discourse segmentation and discourse coherence in Ancient Greek 9789054879442

407 52 7MB Read more

A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers: Discourse Markers of Saying in English and French [1st ed. 2020] 978-3-030-24895-6, 978-3-030-24896-3

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based

681 61 2MB Read more

Sadness Expressions in English and Chinese: Corpus Linguistic Contrastive Semantic Analysis 9781472593719, 9781472510662, 9781474274081, 9781472507679

This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on

185 103 5MB Read more

A Contrastive Study of the Grammatical Structures of Aymara (Aymaran/ Aru) and Cuzco Kechua (Quechuan/ Qichwa)

226 15 7MB Read more

English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study of Classroom Discourse 9783110215519, 9783110205190

With English-medium higher education burgeoning in Europe and elsewhere outside the English-speaking world, this book is

210 13 2MB Read more

A Contrastive Transformational Grammar: Arabic and English 9789004059603, 9004059601

It is a book that compares English grammar to Arabic grammar using the transformational theoary. It can be used as a tex

424 43 17MB Read more

A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict 9781455422043

231 89 761KB Read more

Derived Intransitivity: A Contrastive Analysis of Certain Reflexive Verbs in German, Russian and English 9783111341026, 9783484102538

198 11 4MB Read more