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