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