| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 華語文教學研究所 === 97 === The time expression system in Chinese differs from that of Korean, with Korean being tense-centered and Chinese being aspect-centered. In other words, Korean expresses tense by the use of transformational of verbal affixes, while Chinese, which is an isolating language, makes use of temporal adverbials, context to distinguish temporal differences.
These differences between the two languages may cause difficulties for Korean learners when it comes to Chinese negatives due to the fact that the distinction between the two main Chinese negatives ‘bu’ and ‘mei’ is based on the time expression system. More concretely, Korean students are prone to misunderstand ‘mei’ as the negation of past tense propositions and ‘bu’ as the negation of present or future tense propositions.
This thesis analyzes the characteristics of the two Chinese negatives from the viewpoints of semantics, syntax and the respective time expression systems of each language. This analysis is followed by the results of experimental research conducted by way of cross-linguistic contrastive analysis. The results show a significant statistical difference between the Korean group and the control group in terms of time related questions. Thai learners of Chinese were chosen as the control group because Thai, like Chinese, is an isolating language.
Finally, a pedagogical grammar of the two Chinese negatives aimed at Korean learners is discussed. Its design specifically targets the differences in time expression between Chinese and Korean.
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