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