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