Sinica venetiana

Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics

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  • Bianca Basciano - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Franco Gatti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Anna Morbiato - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; The University of Sydney, Australia - email orcid profile

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

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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