TY - BOOK
T1 - The Chinese particle le : discourse construction and pragmatic marking in Chinese
AU - Berg, Marinus van den
AU - Wu, Guo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2006 Marinus van den Berg and Guo Wu. All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/5/22
Y1 - 2006/5/22
N2 - Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved from a listing of sentences and the discussion of contrastive pairs to a more context and discourse-oriented analysis. The development in recent years of inferential models and situation semantics has opened the way for a renewed study of the use of the Chinese particle LE. This book discusses the Chinese data from a 'mental space' perspective and finally reveals the role so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' plays in the construction and maintenance of discourse.
AB - Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved from a listing of sentences and the discussion of contrastive pairs to a more context and discourse-oriented analysis. The development in recent years of inferential models and situation semantics has opened the way for a renewed study of the use of the Chinese particle LE. This book discusses the Chinese data from a 'mental space' perspective and finally reveals the role so-called Chinese 'sentence LE' plays in the construction and maintenance of discourse.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/11094
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84917126174&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203967898
DO - 10.4324/9780203967898
M3 - Authored Book
SN - 0700714618
SN - 9780203967898
BT - The Chinese particle le : discourse construction and pragmatic marking in Chinese
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -