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