Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand): a corpus study of the splittable compounds in spoken and written Chinese

Siewierska, Anna; Xu, Jiajin; Xiao, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2009.08.002

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“…Chinese corpus-based theoretical linguistics studies are scarce and by no means the mainstream. The original studies by Wang (1983), Zou (2001) and some Western theory-informed Chinese studies such as those by Tao (2000), Xiao and McEnery (2004), and Siewierska, et al (2010), and Li and Wu (2013) are a smalll number of notable exceptions.…”

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“…Corpus-based English studies are currently working along two lines of linguistic inquiry. The first group, mainly influenced by John Sinclair, view language as largely a phraseological phenomenon, and argue that collocation is the cornerstone in the search for units of meaning (Sinclair 2004). '[C]ollocation-viaconcordance' (McEnery and Hardie 2012: 126) has been the most prominent methodology in addressing various lexical, grammatical and discoursal issues.…”

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“…If Zou's inquiry into lexical semantics and meaning of constructions can be considered as to a large extent theorising based on real language data, the majority of corpus-based Chinese studies fit in the category of theory-informed language studies. Siewierska, et al (2010) on Chinese splittable compounds Siewierska, et al (2010) undertook a corpus-based analysis of liheci 'Chinese splittable compounds' -a type of disyllabic compound verbs where other words (in particular aspect markers) can occur between the two elements of the compound. The study of liheci is at the interface of Chinese morphology and syntax.…”

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Corpus-based Chinese studies

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This article reviews corpus-based Chinese studies, both applied and theoretical, from the 1920s to the present. It will be shown that, while corpus-based Chinese studies have been gaining momentum for only the last couple of decades, the roots of Chinese corpus linguistics go all the way back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today the bulk of corpus-based Chinese studies is oriented toward applied linguistics, with the compilation of frequency character/word lists and interlanguage Chinese studies being the most popular types of research. In addition to applied linguistic studies, this overview also highlights some innovative corpus studies on lexical and grammatical aspects of both classical and modern Chinese, as well as studies of sociolinguistic variation and discourse pragmatics. Overall, important groundwork in Chinese corpus linguistics is acknowledged and future directions are discussed.

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“…The category of split words had better be considered in the context of Chinese grammar, that is, how words or phrases are defined in this language, including syllables per word, prosodic patterns, morpho-syntactic rules as well as semantic & pragmatic meanings. In view of this, Siewierska et al [41] rightly point out that the notion of split words in Chinese does pose a challenge to current morpho-syntactic theories in typology.…”

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Introduction to the Theory of Linguistic Inventory Typology: Gaining Insights from the “Inventory”

Jianming¹

2019

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In the light of current studies in language typology, this paper introduces one of the latest linguistic developments in China, i.e. the theory of Linguistic Inventory Typology. This theory holds that linguistic forms in a language tend to be language-particular, which constitute an inventory of their own, yet human cognition and common communication needs will lead them to unity. Some major insights from this theory, such as mighty category, cross-categorical correspondence, inventory split, in-/out-of-inventory, two-way interaction and non-independence, etc. are addressed in this paper with examples.

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“…She worked on her native Polish (e.g., Siewierska 1993) and, after moving to Lancaster, on the Lancashire dialect of English (Hollmann & Siewierska 2007. And most recently, she developed an interest in Chinese (Siewierska, Xu & Xiao 2010). Of course, she had many students who worked on particular languages, and after the first Syntax of the World's Languages conference was held in 2004, where typologically oriented fieldworkers and typologists came together, she decided to host this conference in Lancaster in 2006.…”

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