The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse
This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Translocative Motion Events (TMEs), which possess Macro-Event Property (MEP). It addresses all the issues critical to understanding TMEs in
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The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse A Contrastive Study
The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse
Guofeng Zheng
The Segmentation and Representation of Translocative Motion Events in English and Chinese Discourse A Contrastive Study
Guofeng Zheng East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai, China
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This research is a contrastive study of the segmentation and representation of the English and Chinese translocative Motion events (TME), which encode at least two location-changes and possess Macro-event Property (MEP). In accordance with MEP defined in Bohnemeyer et al. (2007), we construct a parallel corpus with a total of 201 English and 224 Chinese sentences expressing TMEs. Based on this we conduct a series of statistical analyses to explore the similarities and differences between English and Chinese TMEs with MEP. Adopting the model proposed in Bohnemeyer et al. (ibid.) and the conceptual structure theory put forth in Jackendoff (1983), and accepting that a TME conceptually consists of three subevents, namely, DE, PE, and AE, we first align the English and Chinese examples with their translations i
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