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