Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
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abstract
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.
Animacy • Complement of state • Near-synonymy • XML mark-up • Derivation • Early Hong Kong society • Explicitation • Cantonese corpus • Information structure • Evaluative stance • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Corpus study • Affixes • Prototype • Qualitative analysis • Constructicography • Counterfactuality • Chinese syntax • Construction grammar • Assessment • Eluclidean distance • Complement of Manner • Goal-oriented modality • Linguistic database • Manual motor metaphor • Embodiment • Corpus-based study • Language engineering • Complement of manner • Manual Motor Metaphor • Actuality entailment • Evidentiality • Principle of compositionality • Chinese-English modality • Medieval Chinese • Object manipulation • Terms of address • Word formation • Chinese • Categorization • Chinese complement construction • Construction Grammar • Corpus-based • Deontic modality • Object Manipulation • Context • Productivity • Evaluative Stance • Family culture • Chinese Complement Construction • Iconicity • Laudato Si’ • Complement of State • Collostructional analysis • Digital humanities • Multifactorial • Form and meaning representation • Neologisms • Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs) • Quantitative analysis • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Chinese constructicon • Chinese character variants