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Form and Meaning Representation of Chinese Constructions

Fundamental Issues on Constructicography

Weidong Zhan    Peking University, China    

Jiajun Wang    Peking University, China    

Long Chen    Peking University, China    

Haibin Huang    Peking University, China    

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This paper introduces a Chinese constructicon (CCL-CxnBank) and a corpus annotation platform for the description of actual usages of constructions in contexts. CCL-CxnBank is an online repository that contains more than 1,000 constructions, as well as the linguistic descriptions of their various features. Based on our practice of constructicography, we hold that constructions differ from phrases in that they are not recursive. We propose that the formal representation of a given construction should be linear, while its meaning should be represented through paraphrase templates and semantic frames. In the future, contextual features will be integrated to analyse the semantics of constructions.

Accepted
Nov. 30, 2020
Submitted
Oct. 2, 2020
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-407-3
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-406-6

Keywords: Chinese constructicon • Language engineering • Construction grammar • Constructicography • Form and meaning representation • Principle of compositionality

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/010

Copyright: © 2020 Weidong Zhan, Jiajun Wang, Long Chen, Haibin Huang. 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.