Series | Sinica venetiana
Volume 6 | Edited book | Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Bianca Basciano - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Franco Gatti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Anna Morbiato - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; The University of Sydney, Australia - email orcid profile

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-406-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-407-3 | Number of pages 364 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language en

Copyright © 2020 Bianca Basciano, Franco Gatti, Anna Morbiato. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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