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