Co-Varying Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Classifiers 棵 kē and 株

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3853
dc.contributor.author	Dosedlová Aneta
dc.contributor.author	Lu Wei-lun
dc.title	Co-Varying Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Classifiers 棵 kē and 株 zhū
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The numeral classifier is a grammatical category in plenty of East Asian languages, with Chinese being one of the most widely reported. In Chinese, there are many classifiers that are near-synonymous, meaning that certain classifiers may be interchangeable in certain contexts. However, these classifiers are used with semantically similar nouns and, as a result, the distinction between the various usages is not always clear. In view of this issue, we propose to study near-synonymous classifiers using the co-varying collexeme method and the Euclidean distance, by exploring the case of the classifiers 棵 kē and 株 zhū. We report results that not only partially confirm but also complement what has been found in previous raw-frequency-based research.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-04-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/co-varying-collexeme-analysis-of-chinese-classifie/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Categorization
dc.subject	Categorization
dc.subject	Co-varying collexeme analysis
dc.subject	Co-varying collexeme analysis
dc.subject	Collostructional analysis
dc.subject	Collostructional analysis
dc.subject	Eluclidean distance
dc.subject	Eluclidean distance
dc.subject	Near-synonymy
dc.subject	Near-synonymy
dc.subject	Prototype
dc.subject	Prototype

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Co-Varying Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Classifiers 棵 kē and 株 zhū

Aneta Dosedlová Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Wei-lun Lu Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

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The numeral classifier is a grammatical category in plenty of East Asian languages, with Chinese being one of the most widely reported. In Chinese, there are many classifiers that are near-synonymous, meaning that certain classifiers may be interchangeable in certain contexts. However, these classifiers are used with semantically similar nouns and, as a result, the distinction between the various usages is not always clear. In view of this issue, we propose to study near-synonymous classifiers using the co-varying collexeme method and the Euclidean distance, by exploring the case of the classifiers 棵 kē and 株 zhū. We report results that not only partially confirm but also complement what has been found in previous raw-frequency-based research.

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Oct. 14, 2020

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April 17, 2020

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978-88-6969-407-3

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Keywords: Eluclidean distance • Collostructional analysis • Near-synonymy • Categorization • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Prototype

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