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