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