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