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

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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