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