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