This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese Translocative Motion Events (TMEs), which possess Macro-Event Property (MEP). It addresses all the issues critical to understanding TMEs in English and Chinese, from event segmentation, MEP principles and the conceptual structure of TMEs and their constituents, to the representation of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground. The book argues that the corpus-based alignment for the TME segmentation in both languages, the parameters of Actant, Motion, Path and Ground and their relevant statistical description are particularly important for understanding English and Chinese TMEs. The linguistic materialization of Actant, Ground, Path and Motion, together with a wealth of tables and figures, offers convincing evidence to support the typological classification of English and Chinese. The book's suggestions regarding the Talmyan bipartite typology and Bohnemeyer's MEP contribute to theadvancement of TME studies and language typology, and help learners to understand motion events and English-Chinese typological similarities and differences.

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Guofeng Zheng is an Associate Professor at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). He received his Ph.D. degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University in 2011. He is a member of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, Assistant Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at ECUST and Director of ECUST's Master of Translation and Interpretation Program. His research over the past 20 years has been devoted to the area of English and Chinese contrastive analysis, and he has published nearly 20 research articles and reviews in journals both within China and abroad. Over the past 10 ten years, he has narrowed his research focus to English and Chinese motion events, establishing himself as one of the most productive researchers in this field. Over the years, he has won many prestigious teaching awards and research funds, e.g. a Nomination for Best Supervisor Team ECUST, 1st Prize for Excellent Teaching and Education ECUST, Model Teacher ECUST, National Social Science Foundation (17XJY003) and Shanghai Education Commission Award.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Events, Motion Events and Translocative Motion Events
1.1 Translocative Motion Events (TMEs) 1.1.1 Defining event1.1.2 TME1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study1.2.1 Purpose of the study1.2.2 Significance of the study1.3 Framework and Methodological Issues1.4 The Roadmap
Chapter 2 MEP Principles and the Segmentation and Representation of the TMES
2.0 Introduction2.1 Theoretical Issues2.1.1 Talmyan dichotomy typology and motion event studies by other scholars2.1.1.1 Talmyan dichotomy typology2.1.1.2 Dichotomy or trichotomy2.1.2 Event segmentation2.2 Principles of MEP2.2.1 The biuniqueness constraint2.2.2 The macro-event linking principle2.2.3 The referential uniqueness constraint2.2.4 The unique vector constraint2.2.5 The loss of MEP2.2.6 A brief summary of Section 2.22.3 The Segmentation of Complex Motion Events and the TME Constructions with MEP2.3.1 The conceptual structure and types of motion events2.3.2 The segmentation of complex motion events2.3.3 The TME constructions with MEP2.4 The Components of TMEs and Parameter-setting2.4.1 Figureand parameter-setting2.4.2 Motion and parameter- setting2.4.3 Path and parameter-setting2.4.4 Ground and parameter-setting2.5 Tertium Comparationis and the Hypothesis for This Study2.6 Summary
Chapter 3 Corpus Tagging and Statistical Work
3.0 Introduction3.1 Research Design3.1.1 The parallel translation corpus3.1.2 Sentence selection and tagging3.1.3 Variables3.2 English and Chinese TME Constructions3.2.1 The MEP sentences in English and Chinese texts3.2.2 The subevent constructions in English and Chinese texts3.3 Representing English and Chinese TME Constructions3.3.1 Who is moving3.3.2 How to move3.3.3 Which road to follow3.3.4 Where to go3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 Contrasting the Representation of English and Chinese TMEs
4.0 Introduction4.1 The Representation of English and Chinese TMEs4.1.1 English TMEs in the original texts4.1.2 English TMEs in the translated texts4.2.1 Chinese TMEs in the original texts4.2.2 Chinese TMEs in the translated texts4.2.3 At hand or in the distance? Part I: English and Chinese TME constructions in comparison4.3 The TMEs Between English and Chinese4.3.1 From English to Chinese4.3.2 From Chinese to English4.4 The Representation of Motion Event Components4.4.1 The representation of Actants4.4.2 The representation of Motion4.4.3 The representation of Paths4.4.5 At hand or in the distance? Part II: English and Chinese TME component representation in comparison4.5 Beyond Surface Representation4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusions
5.0 Introduction5.1 Major Findings5.2 Theoretical Implications5.3 Limitations and Future Study
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