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