The article examines the concept of fate in Chinese, its cultural and historical development, and its conceptual, value-related and figurative features in the Chinese linguistic worldview.
Keywords:
Chinese language; cultural codes; axiological concepts; concept of fate; linguoculturology; cognitive linguistics; linguocognitive experiment
The article studies the functions of the Chinese prepositions 给 gei3, 为 wei4 and 替 ti4 as markers of verbal valency, with particular attention to the beneficiary.
