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