Corpus Study of the Adverb of Degree ‘Feichang’ in Chinese and English Parallel Corpus
Clara Herlina Karjo,
Mei Rianto Chandra
Abstract:The use of a parallel corpus for Chinese and English adverbs is still rarely explored, especially when comparing the Chinese adverb feichang with its English equivalents. ‘Feichang’ literally means "very", but English has various other words to convey the same words. The aim of this study is to compare the grammatical structure and semantic meaning of the Chinese adverb ‘feichang’ with its English equivalents using Chinese-English parallel corpus. To obtain the data, we used 50 sentences that contain the word … Show more
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