Sinica venetiana

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

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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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 17 Aprile 2020 | Accettato: 14 Ottobre 2020 | Lingua: en

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

Copyright © 2020 Aneta Dosedlová, Wei-lun Lu. 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.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/007


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