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