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