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