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