This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world

This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet dis

This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the

Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber,

Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the li