Operator LE in Chinese : Complexity Within Simplicity and Simplicity Within Complexity

ISBN-13: 9783639183153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str.

Mateja Petrovcic

Opis

LE in Standard Chinese may occur post-verbally, sentence-finally or both. Present study advocates that Standard Chinese has only one LE with one single meaning and function. Operator LE provides an impulse for change in dynamics, but because it is operating on different levels and is interacting with other lexical means, it manifests itself in a variety of different readings. Despite of the apparent polysemy, operator LE always gives zero-to-one impulse to stative environments, and one-to-zero impulse to dynamic environments. According to the principle of compatibility, operator LE is expected in only those environments that are "at least potentially dynamic". Namely, stative environments that do not allow to undergo changes are not compatible with operator LE.

O autorze

Mateja Petrov i is Chinese teacher at Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She completed bachelor s degree in sinology at the University of Ljubljana in 1999, obtained her M.A. degree in linguistics in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in 2009. Her main research interests include corpus linguistics and computer-assisted language learning or teaching.