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This paper delves into some properties of denoting temporality in Chinese in comparison with English and examines how Chinese EFL learners express the temporality of English sentences. For our discussion in this paper, we have conducted a survey of 200 Chinese college students majoring in English. They were asked to translate 12 English sentences into Chinese without adjunctive adverbials exhibiting temporal information. The results of the survey reveal that the subjects employ a variety of grammatical devices such as time adverbials, verbal aspects, future-oriented verbs, and modal verbs to represent temporality. This is mainly attributed to the fact that Chinese is typologically classified as an analytic language in which verbs lack morphological inflection for tense, and is thereby treated as a tenseless language. This in turn will lead to a host of errors in Chinese EFL learners’ language use in English.

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I. Introduction
II. Properties of Temporality, Tense, and Aspect
2.1 Time and Tense in English and Chinese
2.2 Lexical Aspect and Grammatical Aspect
2.3 Temporality Interpretation in Chinese
III. Method
3.1 Subjects
3.2 Materials and Procedure
3.3 Results and Discussion
IV. Conclusion
References
Appendix
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저자

• Xiaoping Shen [ Graduate Student, Chungbuk National University ] First Author
• Seung-Man Kang [ Professor, Chungbuk National University ] Corresponding Author

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820