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