Sinica venetiana

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.

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

Thema codes CFX • 2GDC

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 | Numero pagine 364 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 21 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua en

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