Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
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This volume collects papers presenting corpus-based research on Chinese language and linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The contributions cover different fields of linguistics, including syntax and pragmatics, semantics, morphology and the lexicon, sociolinguistics, and corpus building. There is now considerable emphasis on the reliability of linguistic data: the studies presented here are all grounded in the tenet that corpora, intended as collections of naturally occurring texts produced by a variety of speakers/writers, provide a more robust, statistically significant foundation for linguistic analysis. The volume explores not only the potential of using corpora as tools allowing access to authentic language material, but also the challenges involved in corpus interrogation, analysis, and building.
Derivation • Categorization • Actuality entailment • Complement of State • Construction grammar • Medieval Chinese • Animacy • Qualitative analysis • Chinese character variants • Corpus study • Complement of manner • Object Manipulation • Evaluative stance • Object manipulation • Manual Motor Metaphor • Assessment • Deontic modality • Affixes • Evidentiality • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Counterfactuality • Complement of Manner • Chinese complement construction • Complement of state • Near-synonymy • Word formation • Constructicography • Context • Laudato Si’ • Chinese-English modality • Linguistic database • Cantonese corpus • Collostructional analysis • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Corpus-based • Information structure • Iconicity • Goal-oriented modality • Productivity • Digital humanities • Embodiment • Quantitative analysis • Evaluative Stance • Chinese • Manual motor metaphor • Principle of compositionality • XML mark-up • Construction Grammar • Prototype • Form and meaning representation • Family culture • Multifactorial • Corpus-based study • Explicitation • Chinese Complement Construction • Early Hong Kong society • Language engineering • Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs) • Eluclidean distance • Terms of address • Neologisms • Chinese constructicon • Chinese syntax