Series |
Sinica venetiana
Volume 6 | Edited book | Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
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 Corpus-based • Animacy • Iconicity • Language engineering • Neologisms • Goal-oriented modality • Construction grammar • Manual Motor Metaphor • Deontic modality • Eluclidean distance • Chinese complement construction • Medieval Chinese • Cantonese corpus • Qualitative analysis • Manual motor metaphor • Chinese syntax • Early Hong Kong society • Categorization • Laudato Si’ • Counterfactuality • Explicitation • Principle of compositionality • Evaluative Stance • Object manipulation • Family culture • Constructicography • Affixes • Evaluative stance • Productivity • Information structure • Quantitative analysis • Chinese Complement Construction • Context • Prototype • Digital humanities • Near-synonymy • Assessment • Derivation • Evidentiality • XML mark-up • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Collostructional analysis • Complement of State • Embodiment • Object Manipulation • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Chinese character variants • Word formation • Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs) • Form and meaning representation • Chinese constructicon • Chinese-English modality • Multifactorial • Complement of Manner • Complement of manner • Actuality entailment • Construction Grammar • Corpus study • Complement of state • Linguistic database • Corpus-based study • Terms of address • Chinese
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 | Number of pages 364 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language en
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Syntax and Pragmatics
Semantics
Morphology and the Lexicon
Sociolinguistics
Corpus and Database Building