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

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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