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The Chinese Aspectual System

Theory and Computation

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Authors:
  1. Hongzhi Xu

    1. Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

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  • Presents linguistic theories on aspect in Chinese, together with extensive corpus data
  • Discusses viewpoint aspect, lexical aspect, and their interaction
  • Includes experiments on the automatic identification of modality and aspect in Chinese sentences

Part of the book series: Corpora and Intercultural Studies (COINST, volume 8)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 1-13

  3. Previous Studies on Aspect

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 15-39

  4. Event Structure and Event Types

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 41-106

  5. Semantics of Aspectual Markers and Negators in Chinese

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 107-148

  6. Formal Representation of Aspect

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 149-184

  7. Annotating a Chinese Corpus for Aspectual Study

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 185-250

  8. Automatic Aspectual Classification of Chinese Sentences

    • Hongzhi Xu
    Pages 251-278
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About this book

This book presents a theoretical study on aspect in Chinese, including both situation and viewpoint aspects. Unlike previous studies, which have largely classified linguistic units into different situation types, this study defines a set of ontological event types that are conceptually universal and on the basis of which different languages employ various linguistic devices to describe such events. To do so, it focuses on a particular component of events, namely the viewpoint aspect. It includes and discusses a wealth of examples to show how such ontological events are realized in Chinese. In addition, the study discusses how Chinese modal verbs and adverbs affect the distribution of viewpoint aspects associated with certain situation types.


In turn, the book demonstrates how the proposed linguistic theory can be used in a computational context. Simply identifying events in terms of the verbs and their arguments is insufficient for real situations such as understanding the factivity and the logical/temporal relations between events. The proposed framework offers the possibility of analyzing events in Chinese text, yielding deep semantic information.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

    Hongzhi Xu

About the author

Hongzhi Xu received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Science Department, University of Pennsylvania. He is now an assistant researcher at the Institute of Corpus Study and Application, Shanghai International Studies University. He has published important papers on ACL, COLING, and various aspects of linguistics and computational linguistics. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Chinese Aspectual System

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Computation

  • Authors: Hongzhi Xu

  • Series Title: Corpora and Intercultural Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3408-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3407-9Published: 23 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3410-9Published: 24 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3408-6Published: 22 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2510-4802

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-4810

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 420 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, general, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

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