Perfective aspect and perfect aspect

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Lixin Jin, Wei Wang, Kun Xie, Xiaohua Wang, Xiaodong Tang
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Abstract

The “perfective” (Chinese term: wánzhěngtǐ) and the “perfect”(Chinese term: wánchéngtǐ) seem to be two different terms that are distinguished by definition. But in the description of actual languages, the boundary between them is not clear. The use of these two terms in many literatures is very arbitrary. This arbitrariness frequently causes confusion in typological studies in tense and aspect. This arbitrary use has a lot to do with the classification and definition of Comrie (1976). Based on a description of the perfective/imperfective distinction in Russian, this paper finds that perfective is sensitive to the inner boundaries of events, and perfect is sensitive to the relation between event time and reference time. Based on a description of the four aspectual markers (zhe, le, guo, and zai) in Mandarin Chinese, this paper finds that they respectively express three different event phases (inchoative, durative and terminative) in realization aspect. The present study shows that Mandarin is not a language sensitive to boundaries of events, but to phasal aspect. Phasal aspect also exists in Japanese.
完美的一面和完美的一面
“完成的”(中文术语:wánzhŞngtř)和“完成的(中文术语)”似乎是两个不同的术语,在定义上有区别。但在对实际语言的描述中,它们之间的界限并不明确。这两个术语在许多文献中的使用是非常随意的。这种随意性在时态和体位的类型学研究中经常引起混淆。这种随意使用与Comrie(1976)的分类和定义有很大关系。本文通过对俄语中完成语/不完成语区别的描述,发现完成语对事件的内部边界很敏感,而完成语则对事件时间和参考时间之间的关系很敏感。本文通过对普通话四个体标记(哲、乐、果、在)的描述,发现它们在实现方面分别表达了三个不同的事件阶段(起始、持续和终止)。本研究表明,普通话不是一种对事件边界敏感的语言,而是一种对阶段性方面敏感的语言。Phasal方面也存在于日语中。
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