[演講] The Typology of Progressive and Continuous Aspect in Sin
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU)
School of Education and Languages
Research Institute for Bilingual Learning and Teaching (RIBLT)
Upcoming Seminar Notice
Title:
The Typology of Progressive and Continuous Aspect in Sinitic: Some Preliminary
Remarks
Speaker:
Prof. Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Date & Time:
24 April 2026 (Friday)
16:30 – 17:45 (HKT)
Venue:
On-site: B0411, Main Campus, HKMU
Online: Via Zoom
Abstract
Grammatical aspect is a domain of the grammar of Sinitic languages which has
been studied from different perspectives, including research on specific
aspectual categories and on aspectual systems, both for individual varieties
and in cross-dialectal inquiry. As for the categories of progressive and
continuous aspect, there appears to be a dearth of studies which are based on
comprehensive, balanced samples; also, the existing research mostly tends to
focus on description, rather than on typological and/or historical analysis.
Moreover, the distinction between the categories of progressive and continuous
aspect may be understood differently by scholars, thus making their analyses
difficult to compare.
In this talk, we present the results of two studies conceived as preliminary
steps towards a comprehensive, typologically-informed survey of progressive
and continuous aspect in Sinitic: the analysis of a phenomenon-based sample of
41 Sinitic varieties that employ a 在 zài-type progressive/continuous aspect
marker placed after the verb phrase, and a survey of progressive/continuous
aspect-marking constructions in a sample of 32 Yue dialects. After
illustrating the morpho-syntactic strategies found in our samples, we shall
discuss the typological patterns and areal distribution for those
constructions, and their possible pathways of grammaticalization. Also, we
shall offer comparative remarks with Sinitic languages having similar
construction types for those aspectual categories.
About the Speaker
Professor Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (馬振國) is professor of Chinese language
and linguistics at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca'
Foscari University of Venice. His research on Sinitic languages has been
published in numerous journals and in edited volumes. He is the author of
Lexical Derivation in Mandarin Chinese (Crane Publishing, 2012) and co-author
of Chinese Linguistics: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021).
His work primarily focuses on Chinese linguistics and linguistic typology,
with particular attention to Chinese dialectology, the areal typology of
Sinitic languages, language contact, word formation processes, the expression
of grammatical meaning, and the development of morphology.
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