Sinica venetiana

Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Bianca Basciano - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Franco Gatti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Anna Morbiato - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; The University of Sydney, Australia - email orcid profile

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

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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