Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles

Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles is a theoretical and practical book about the appropriate use of Chinese particles (le, guo, zhe, etc.). Teacher Jian Kang Loar analyses the differences and the way to use all particles and proposes examples and exercises. 

The book is targeted to teachers and students with an intermediate or advanced level. 

Description by publisher:

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese plays an important role in interpreting the temporal information of a sentence. It is an important verbal category, which is concerned with the speaker’s viewpoint or perspective on a situation: whether the situation is presented as complete (perfective aspect) or as ongoing (imperfective aspect), etc. Learning to understand the aspect particles or markers, and use them correctly, has always been one of the most difficult tasks for learners of Chinese.

Learn to Use Chinese Aspect Particles is a pedagogical guide designed to equip teachers with necessary aspectual theoretical knowledge, and is aimed at in-service or trainee teachers, and intermediate or advanced students to reinforce teaching and learning. Challenging exercises are designed and explanations for the correct use of an aspect particle are given, thus making the book more useable and convenient to teachers and enhancing the practical reference value of the book.

Contents: 

Preface

1 Basic Background Knowledge

2 The Perfective Aspects in Chinese

3 The Imperfective Aspects in Chinese

Bibliography

Index