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| Cognitive Processes | 1 |
| Contrastive Linguistics | 1 |
| Interference (Language) | 1 |
| Mandarin Chinese | 1 |
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| Thompson, J. Charles | 1 |
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Peer reviewedThompson, J. Charles – Linguistics, 1968
It has long been realized that tense is not a feature of the Chinese verb system, which is controlled by a set of particles attached to the verb or to the sentence as a whole. The various usages involving these particles have been listed and described, the author points out, but the system as a whole has not been clearly defined. He suggests the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Interference (Language), Mandarin Chinese
