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