Su / Zhan From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct

Corpus-based, Near Synonym Driven Approaches to Chinese Lexical Semantics
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-329-240-6
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 332 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Su, Qi

Zhan, Weidong

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I The Function of the Sentence-final Particle ba as Discourse Marker.- A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai+NP+Bian/ Mian/ Tou.- Lexical semantics of Mandarin Carry and Hold Verbs: A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of ná?and wò?.- Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics.- Native Speakers’ Conceptualization of Force and Motion in the Semantics of Pull Verbs of Hand Action in Mandarin Chinese.- Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese.- A Degree-based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction.- A Corpus-based Investigation of you in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker.- On Occasion-quantification and “Occasionally”: the Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jingcháng and ou’er.- Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to t?in in Chengdu Chinese.- Part II The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese.- Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions vs. Prenominal Modifications.- Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese.- Analysis of Objectivity-Descriptive Feature of Chinese Psychological Adjectives Based on Corpus: taking Beishang, Shangxin and Nanguo as examples.- Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.- Part III Construction and Analysis of Chinese Word-formation Knowledge Base Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary.- On The Design of Concise Dictionary of Language Rehabilitation Terms.- The Construction and Annotation of a Semantically Enriched Database: The Mandarin VerbNet and its NLP applications.- A Method of Modern Chinese Irony Detection.- Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency.- A Lexical Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in An Online Car-hailing Company’s Apologetic Statements ——From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory.- GAIGE and REFORM: A Chinese-English Comparative Keywords Study.

Über Autor(innen)

Qi Su
is an Associate Professor and PhD advisor at the Institute of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, Peking University. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Peking University in 2007. Her research interests include computational linguistics, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. She is co-editor of the Springer series
Chinese Lexical Semantics
LNAI Volume 8229, 10709 and 11173, and she has (co-) authored over 50 publications in the areas of computational linguistics and lexical semantics. She is the recipient of the Ng Teng Fong/Xinhe Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the Wangxuan Young Scholar Award, Peking University’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the China Electronics Society’s first prize for Science and Technology Progress.
Weidong Zhan
is a Professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University. His main research areas are modern Chinese formal grammar, language knowledge engineering and Chinese information processing. His Ph.D. dissertation, A study of constructing rules of phrases in contemporary Chinese for Chinese information processing, was published in 2000 by Tsinghua University Press. He has co-edited two textbooks:
Modern Chinese
, which was published in 2014 by Higher Education Press; and
An Introduction to Computational Linguistics
, which was published in 2003 by The Commercial Press. He is the first author of the amendment of the national standard "General rules for writing numerals in publishing texts" (GB/T 15835-2011). He also compiled a user guide for the standard, which was published in 2012 by Language & Culture Press. In addition, he has also published numerous articles in leading Chinese academic journals. He was named "New Century Outstanding Scholar" in 2012 and "Changjiang Outstanding Young Scholar" in 2017 by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.