Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”

Zhao Xu; Zheng Wu

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_1

Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”

Zhao Xu, Zheng Wu^*

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Academy of Language and Culture

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The paper discusses the divergence and convergence in aspect and tense meanings via semantic feature analysis. Arguably, the divergence of the experiential marker guo过 and the actualize marker le了 are embodied in aspect and tense meanings. In particular, the tense and aspect meanings of guo过 indicates factual connection between the past event and current one. As such, the reality of event is accentuated by backtracking the past experience. The tense and aspect meanings of le了is involved with eventual connection between the past event and current one, which express the actualization of event via highlighting the action perfective. The convergence of the tense of guo过 and le了 can be rendered by a couple of conditions, including (1) the suppression of le了 on guo过 in the syntactic structure of “V-guo-le-O”, which leads to the semantic meaning of the close-temporal past event; (2) the force of temporal adverbials on the distance between the event time and speech time (reference time); (3) the compliment of frequency induce the number of times that the past event happened, which emphasized the same “Perfective” meaning of guo过 and le了.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Subtitle of host publication	23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Editors	Qi Su, Ge Xu, Xiaoyan Yang
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Springer Cham
Pages	3-13
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031289538
ISBN (Print)	9783031289521
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_1
Publication status	Published - 24 Apr 2023
Event	23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 14 May 2022 → 15 May 2022 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8 (conference proceeding)

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13495
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Name	CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics
Publisher	Springer

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Conference	23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022
Period	14/05/22 → 15/05/22
Internet address	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8 (conference proceeding)

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Aspect
guo
le
Semantic features
Tense

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Xu, Z., & Wu, Z. (2023). Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”. In Q. Su, G. Xu, & X. Yang (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (pp. 3-13). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13495), (CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_1

Xu, Zhao ; Wu, Zheng. / Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. editor / Qi Su ; Ge Xu ; Xiaoyan Yang. Switzerland : Springer Cham, 2023. pp. 3-13 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics).

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Xu, Z & Wu, Z 2023, Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”. in Q Su, G Xu & X Yang (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13495, CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, Springer Cham, Switzerland, pp. 3-13, 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022, 14/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_1

Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”. / Xu, Zhao; Wu, Zheng.
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. ed. / Qi Su; Ge Xu; Xiaoyan Yang. Switzerland: Springer Cham, 2023. p. 3-13 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13495), (CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics).

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Xu Z, Wu Z. Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”. In Su Q, Xu G, Yang X, editors, Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Switzerland: Springer Cham. 2023. p. 3-13. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (CLSW: Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_1

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