Series | Sinica venetiana
Volume 6 | Edited book | Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

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

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

Copyright © 2020 Bianca Basciano, Franco Gatti, Anna Morbiato. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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