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