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A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites

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Authors:
  1. Jing Ding

    1. School of International Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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  • Presents a practical discussion based on a large corpus, making it different from the previous theoretical studies
  • Provides a new perspective for looking at the differences of three main types of opposites
  • Includes observations on the features of Chinese opposite pairings
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics (FiCL, volume 1)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 1-2

  3. Literature Review

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 3-8

  4. Opposites in Constructions

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 9-49

  5. Opposites in Discourse

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 51-92

  6. Opposites and Negation

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 93-117

  7. Conclusion

    • Jing Ding
    Pages 119-121

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 123-135
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About this book

This book studies Chinese opposites. It uses a large corpus (GigaWord) to trace the behavior of opposite pairings’ co-occurrence, focusing on the following questions: In what types of constructions, from window-size restricted and bi-syllabic to quad-syllabic, will the opposite pairings appear together? And, on a larger scale, i.e. in constrained-free contexts, in which syntactic frames will the opposite pairings appear together? The data suggests aspects that have been ignored by previous theoretical studies, such as the ordering rules in co-occurrent pairings, the differences between the three main sub-types of opposites (that is, antonym, complementary, converse) in discourse function distributions. The author also considers the features of this Chinese study and compares it to similar studies of English and Japanese. In all, it offers a practical view of how opposites are used in a certain language as a response to the puzzles lingering in theoretical fields.
This study appeals to linguists, computational linguists and language-lovers. With numerous tables, illustrations and examples, it is easy to read but also encourages readers to link their personal instincts with the results from a large corpus to experience the beauty of language as a shared human resource. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • School of International Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Jing Ding

About the author

Dr. Jing Ding is presently a research fellow at the School of International Education, South China University of Technology. She received her PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, in 2015. Her main research interests are lexical semantics and computational linguistics. She has published papers in the Proceedings of the Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites

  • Authors: Jing Ding

  • Series Title: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6184-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6183-7Published: 05 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4820-4Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6184-4Published: 15 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5308

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5316

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 135

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Semantics, Ontology, Computational Linguistics

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