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

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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