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