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