Abstract
Aspect has been the focal topic in the researches of Chinese temporal category, and it is the same in the field of dialectology. There are a lot of literatures on le and zhe, but we will focus on guo in Taiwanese Min in this paper. First, among the collected 1772 guo’s, most of tokens are used as a verb, and only 4.06% as an experiential aspect marker; it is maybe due to there are “pat/bat”to perform such function, and the construction of “pat/bat +V+O” is a kind of reinforcement. Second, from the perspective of text grammar, there is 34.72% used in foregrounding in short texts. After broadening the text size, 20.00% of the original foregrounding aspect markers remain used in foregrounding. In the comparison between Taiwanese Min and Taiwanese Mandarin based on the corpus, we found the form of V+O+guo appears more frequently in Taiwanese Min (11.11%) than in Taiwanese Mandarin.