Sinica venetiana

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.

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

Thema codes CFX • 2GDC

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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