Sinica venetiana

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.

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

Thema codes CFX • 2GDC

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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