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