4 Tense and aspect in Chinese

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. List of abbreviations xi
5. 1 General introduction 1
6. 2 The category tense 8
7. 3 The category aspect 15
8. 4 Tense and aspect in Chinese 33
9. 5 The syntactic and semantic analysis of temporal adverbials and duration phrases 76
10. 6 The syntactic and semantic constraints of aspecto-temporal adverbs in the Shǐjì 273
11. 7 Conclusion 496
12. Bibliography 502
13. Index 519