Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
[electronic resources]
\ Richard Xiao and Tony McEnery.
New York
: Routledge
, 2010.
xii, 201 p.
:ill.
Routledge advances in corpus linguistics
; 11
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-196) and index.
Aspect marking in English and Chinese -- Temporal adverbials and telicity in English and Chinese -- Quantifying constructions in English and Chinese -- Passives in English and Chinese -- Negation in English and Chinese: variants and variations -- Negation in English and Chinese: special usages -- Challenge and promise, and the way forward.