Abstract
This paper is an attempt at coherent analysis of the Pekingese Laizhe. The scarcity of linguistic material available on this time and aspect marker justifies a thorough descriptive study of its syntactic and semantic properties which, consequently, leads to a better unterdstanding of the basic principles inherent in the Chinese way of expressing the categories of time and aspect in general. Among other things, it points out the difference of character between the verbal suffixes -guo and -le. Laizhe marks the "cut off" (i.e. "coupure"), an abstract operation, which implies that a given process or state which was going on in the past was subsequently closed and, indeed, cut off from the present.
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