Title: Discussion on Chinese-English tense contrast
Abstract: At first,consults the perspectives of functionalism and case grammar,contrasts the Chinese-English tense system in detail,especially stresses the effects of time adverbial and tense mark on time relationship system of two languages,considers Chinese takes mainly time adverbial as mark,while tense mark is more obvious in English.Second,discusses the tense expression method,the relationship between vocabulary meaning and tense,tense meaning of modal system of two languages,introduces the Chinese-English tense system comprehensively.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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