What is it about?

this paper uses literary translation examples to examine language typology. It argues that modern Chinese can be considered as satellite-framed language, rather than equi-pollently-framed language.

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Why is it important?

differentiating V1, V2 and V3 casts new light to examine language typology

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in support of Talmy's position that Chinese belongs to satellite-framed language

Dr Vincent Xian Wang
University of Macau

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This page is a summary of: Translating Motion Events from English into Chinese: An Examination of Literary Works, January 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004299245_009.
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