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