Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0700714618, 9780203967898 |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 May 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2006 Marinus van den Berg and Guo Wu. All rights reserved.
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