The Chinese Temporal Coverbs, Postpositions, Coverb-Postposition Pairs, and Their Temporal Logic
York Chung Ho Yang, June‐Jei Kuo · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 1998
Some researches concerning the correspondence between the temporal features in English and other European languages have been done by Bree (1994). The subject of this paper is to collect and induce the temporal features of Chinese.The functionality of the Chinese temporal Coverbs, postpositions and Coverb-postposition pairs will be introduced Meanwhile, simple logic representation forms for Chinese temporal sentences will be proposed.The temporal taxonomy of Chinese has been defined and these definitions are also ready to be coded into a program for translation purpose.We develop a temporal representation language into which Chinese sentences involving temporal Coverbs, postpositions and Coverb-postposition pairs can be naturally translated.