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Abstract
The study of aspect meaning is not only based on the combination of markers with verbs, but also needs to extend to the whole situation. To establish the aspect meaning of a situation we need to pay attention to the situation type, the verb type, the aspectual marker as well as the surrounding arguments. The situation types are classified into the two main types: the stative situations and the dynamic situations. In particular, the stative situations include the individual level states and the stage level states. The dynamic situations consist of the activity, accomplishment, achievement, and semelfactive situations. Each type of the situation should be determined based on the five attributes: [±dynamic], [±durative], [±telic], [±bounded], and [±result]. Besides, in Mandarin Chinese, there are basically four aspectual markers: 了, 过, 着, and 在. In this article, we reply on a two-level approach to emphasize the interaction between situation types and four aspectual markers: 了, 过, 着, and 在. This result plays an important role in helping learners better understand the possibility of the appearance of the markers in each specific situation type. In addition, through the contrast process, learners can observe the equivalent means of translation into Vietnamese, thereby limiting word by word translation of the aspectual markers in the source and target languages.
Issue: Vol 7 No 2 (2023)
Page No.: 2063-2080
Published: Jun 30, 2023
Section: Research Article - Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32508/stdjssh.v7i1.792
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