TY - BOOK AU - McEnery,Tony AU - Xiao,Richard TI - Corpus-based contrastive studies of English and Chinese T2 - Routledge advances in corpus linguistics SN - 9780203847954 (e-book : PDF) PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Contrastive linguistics KW - Semantics, Comparative KW - Chinese language KW - Aspect KW - English language KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Aspect marking in English and Chinese -- Temporal adverbials and telicity in English and Chinese -- Quantifying constructions in English and Chinese -- Passives in English and Chinese -- Negation in English and Chinese: Variants and Variations -- Negation in English and Chinese: special usages -- Challenge and promise, and the way forward; Also available in print edition UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203847954 ER -