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As a cognitive ability to construe events in alternate ways, aspectuality has aroused many researchers’ academic attention; however, the concatenation of aspect markers in a clause is understudied in previous studies. The present paper follows a bidimensional approach of aspect to conduct a corpus-based aspectual analysis of verb concatenation with imperfective markers  zhe  (henceforth VCIMs  zhe ) in Mandarin. Specifically, to construe the cognitive inference mechanism of aspect, a multifactorial analysis of VCIMs  zhe  by the statistical techniques of multiple correspondence analysis, conditional inference trees and conditional random forests is carried out to explore the prototypical temporal features of verbs in two slots, predict the aspectual meanings of two imperfective markers  zhe , and also discuss the conditional importance of factors such as durativity, dynamicity, telicity, boundedness, and slot in identifying the situation types of two verbs or verb phrases in VCIMs  zhe . Methodologically, a usage-based multifactorial analysis of VCIMs  zhe  complements previous introspective studies on aspect marking. Theoretically, a corpus-based aspectual account of VCIMs  zhe , one type of complex viewpoint aspects, expands traditional studies on Chinese aspect system, supplies evidence for aspect typology cross-linguistically, and provides reference for second language acquisition of usage patterns of  zhe  by non-native speakers.

A multifactorial aspectual analysis of verb concatenation with imperfective markers zhe in Mandarin