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