and aspect markers .
 
A clarification of modality , aspect , and phase may shed some light on the thorny problems of the Mandarin aspect system .
 
for treatments of Mandarin aspect markers , see Wang ( 1965 ) and Chao ( 1968 : 245 ) .
 
11 ‘ Tomorrow he does come ’ is not said in the ordinary sense of future .
 
The sentence may describe a habitual event ‘ he does come on Mondays , and tomorrow happens to be Monday ’ or a prescribed event ‘ he does come tomorrow according to the schedule ’ .
 
12 For a discussion of case relations in Mandarin,see Y .
 
C .
 
Li ( 1970 ) .
 
13 See fn .
 
8 for the semantic relation between ‘ to possess ‘ and ‘ to exist ’ .
 
The two ‘ meanings ’ are expressed by the same Taiwanese verb f 有 .
 
15 That the same verb may have more than one semantic feature can be illustrated by the Tw .
 
verb pun 分 , ‘ to share ’ , and ‘ to divide ’ which has slightly different meaning in other languages .
 
In Hakka , it means ‘