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