Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Bianca Basciano - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Franco Gatti - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Anna Morbiato - The University of Sydney - 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 Derivation • Complement of Manner • Eluclidean distance • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Collostructional analysis • Categorization • Digital humanities • Chinese constructicon • Complement of manner • Explicitation • Context • Counterfactuality • Form and meaning representation • Linguistic database • Neologisms • Object Manipulation • Early Hong Kong society • Manual motor metaphor • Quantitative analysis • XML mark-up • Chinese-English modality • Corpus-based • Animacy • Deontic modality • Corpus study • Chinese Complement Construction • Evaluative stance • Assessment • Multifactorial • Principle of compositionality • Corpus-based study • Word formation • Chinese character variants • Laudato Si’ • Manual Motor Metaphor • Object manipulation • Chinese syntax • Complement of State • Chinese complement construction • Iconicity • Language engineering • Qualitative analysis • Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs) • Near-synonymy • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Complement of state • Embodiment • Prototype • Cantonese corpus • Evidentiality • Construction grammar • Information structure • Goal-oriented modality • Terms of address • Productivity • Chinese • Actuality entailment • Constructicography • Construction Grammar • Family culture • Evaluative Stance • Affixes • Medieval Chinese
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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