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Volume 6 | Miscellanea | 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 Chinese-English modality • Iconicity • Explicitation • Early Hong Kong society • Near-synonymy • Context • Object Manipulation • Cantonese corpus • Complement of Manner • Co-varying collexeme analysis • Affixes • Laudato Si’ • Chinese • Chinese character variants • Deontic modality • Counterfactuality • Evaluative stance • Eluclidean distance • Form and meaning representation • Qualitative analysis • Derivation • Complement of state • Chinese syntax • Chinese constructicon • Complement of manner • Principle of compositionality • Evaluative Stance • Chinese complement construction • Actuality entailment • Prototype • Terms of address • Corpus-based study • Family culture • Chinese Complement Construction • Corpus study • Embodiment • Construction Grammar • Manual motor metaphor • Object manipulation • Multifactorial • XML mark-up • Word formation • Corpus-based • Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs) • Assessment • Neologisms • Digital humanities • Constructicography • Evidentiality • Medieval Chinese • Quantitative analysis • Categorization • Collostructional analysis • Animacy • Complement of State • Construction grammar • Information structure • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Language engineering • Linguistic database • Productivity • Manual Motor Metaphor • Goal-oriented modality
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 | Numero pagine 364 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 21 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua en
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Syntax and Pragmatics
Semantics
Morphology and the Lexicon
Sociolinguistics
Corpus and Database Building