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