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