Sinica venetiana

Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Bianca Basciano - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Franco Gatti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Anna Morbiato - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; The University of Sydney, Australia - email orcid profile

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-406-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-407-3 | Number of pages 364 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language en

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