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

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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