Temporal and aspectual reference in Mandarin Chinese
动态和时态
Claudia Ross 罗云

Abstract 摘要
This article examines the system of situational reference associated with the Mandarin verb suffix V-le. It demonstrates that while V-le marks perfective aspectual distinctions, it also possesses the anchoring properties of a marker of past tense. It shows that the anchoring properties of V-le are obscured by differences between Mandarin and English in the reference point that serves as the axis of orientation for past tense marking and in the range of verb types that accept the past tense morpheme. Finally, it demonstrates an overlap in the systems of aspect and tense in Mandarin in which the system of tense incorporates basic aspectual distinctions.

本文检验与汉语动词后缀,<动词+了>有关的情景指称系统。结果表明，当<动词+了>表示完成态，它也具有过去时态标志的固定性质。这种<动词+了>的固定性质因为汉英两种语言的指称点不同而变得模糊。这个指称点则是过去时态标志的轴心，也是接受过去时态词素的动词类型范围的轴心。最后本文还阐明了汉语时态和动态系统的一种重叠，时态系统和动态系统的要素相合并。

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