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

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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