From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct: Corpus-based, Near Synonym Driven Approaches to Chinese Lexical Semantics

✍ Scribed by Qi Su, Weidong Zhan

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 324
Series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics 9
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers new perspectives on the study of Chinese lexical semantics, as well as discourse analysis and cognitive pragmatics based on lexical semantics. The first part focuses on fundamental issues in lexical semantic research, while the second features articles highlighting various aspects of the lexical category systems in Chinese. The third part discusses application-oriented research on lexical semantics. Presenting the latest research in the field, the book is a valuable resource for specialists in Chinese lexical semantics, as well as for researchers and students interested in grammar, theory of lexical semantics, and word/meaning processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The Function of the Sentence-Final Particle ba as Discourse Marker (Minfeng Wang)....Pages 3-18
A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai + NP + Bian/Mian/Tou (Xiaolong Lu)....Pages 19-37
Lexical Semantics of Mandarin Carry and Hold Verbs: A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of ná 拿 and wò 握 (Tianqi He, Meichun Liu, Hongfeng He)....Pages 39-50
Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics (Jiun-Shiung Wu)....Pages 51-62
Mandarin Speakers’ Conceptualization of Force and Motion in the Semantics of Pull Verbs of Hand Action in Mandarin Chinese (Helena Hong Gao)....Pages 63-75
Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese (Yu-Yin Hsu, Ka Keung Lee)....Pages 77-89
A Degree-Based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction (Mengjie Zhang, Wenhua Duan, Yunqing Lin)....Pages 91-100
A Corpus-Based Investigation of yǒu in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker (Yong Kang Khoo, Jingxia Lin)....Pages 101-118
On Occasion-Quantification and “Occasionally”: The Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr (Daniel Kwang Guan Chan, Hua-Hung Yuan)....Pages 119-133
Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to tɕin in Chengdu Chinese (Jiajuan Xiong, Chu-Ren Huang)....Pages 135-145
Front Matter ....Pages 147-147
The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese (Tian Shao, Chengwen Wang, Gaoqi Rao, Endong Xun)....Pages 149-163
Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions Versus Prenominal Modifications (Meichun Liu, Yingying Ye)....Pages 165-177
Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese (Yin Zhong, Chu-Ren Huang)....Pages 179-191
Analysis of Objectivity-Descriptive Feature of Chinese Psychological Adjectives Based on Corpus: Taking Beishang, Shangxin and Nanguo as Examples (Shuo Zhang, Hongyin Li)....Pages 193-209
Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese (Xuefeng Gao, Chu-Ren Huang, Sophia Yat-Mei Lee)....Pages 211-222
Front Matter ....Pages 223-223
Construction and Analysis of Chinese Word-Formation Knowledge Base Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary (Yinbing Zhang, Jihua Song, Weiming Peng, Dongdong Guo, Jin Zhang, Zhao Zhang)....Pages 225-239
On the Design of Concise Dictionary of Language Rehabilitation Terms (Qiuling Gao, Haiying Li)....Pages 241-255
The Construction and Annotation of a Semantically Enriched Database: The Mandarin VerbNet and Its NLP Applications (Meichun Liu)....Pages 257-272
A Method of Modern Chinese Irony Detection (An-Ran Li, Chu-Ren Huang)....Pages 273-288
Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency (Marc Tang, I-Ping Wan)....Pages 289-303
A Lexical Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in an Online Car-Hailing Company’s Apologetic Statements—From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory (Yan Yang, Yulian Qian)....Pages 305-319
Gaige and Reform: A Chinese-English Comparative Keywords Study (Longxing Li, Sicong Dong, Vincent Xian Wang)....Pages 321-332

✦ Subjects

Linguistics; Semantics; Corpus Linguistics; Theoretical Linguistics; Chinese

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