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From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct

Corpus-based, Near Synonym Driven Approaches to Chinese Lexical Semantics

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Editors:
  1. Qi Su

    1. School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  2. Weidong Zhan

    1. Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  • One of the first volumes focusing on Chinese lexical semantics
  • Offers state-of-the-art research methodology and analysis in Chinese lexical semantics
  • Represents how the field of Chinese lexical semantics has evolved and matured over the past 20 years

Part of the book series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics (FiCL, volume 9)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Corpus-Based Minimal Contrast Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Function of the Sentence-Final Particle ba as Discourse Marker

      • Minfeng Wang
      Pages 3-18

    3. A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai + NP + Bian/Mian/Tou

      • Xiaolong Lu
      Pages 19-37

    4. 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

    5. Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics

      • Jiun-Shiung Wu
      Pages 51-62

    6. 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

    7. Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese

      • Yu-Yin Hsu, Ka Keung Lee
      Pages 77-89

    8. A Degree-Based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction

      • Mengjie Zhang, Wenhua Duan, Yunqing Lin
      Pages 91-100

    9. A Corpus-Based Investigation of yǒu in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker

      • Yong Kang Khoo, Jingxia Lin
      Pages 101-118

    10. 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

    11. Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to tɕin in Chengdu Chinese

      • Jiajuan Xiong, Chu-Ren Huang
      Pages 135-145

  3. Meaning Construct in Grammatical Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese

      • Tian Shao, Chengwen Wang, Gaoqi Rao, Endong Xun
      Pages 149-163

    3. Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions Versus Prenominal Modifications

      • Meichun Liu, Yingying Ye
      Pages 165-177

    4. Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese

      • Yin Zhong, Chu-Ren Huang
      Pages 179-191

    5. 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

    6. Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese

      • Xuefeng Gao, Chu-Ren Huang, Sophia Yat-Mei Lee
      Pages 211-222

  4. Meaning Construct in Extended Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. 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
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About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Qi Su

  • Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Weidong Zhan

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct

  • Book Subtitle: Corpus-based, Near Synonym Driven Approaches to Chinese Lexical Semantics

  • Editors: Qi Su, Weidong Zhan

  • Series Title: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

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

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9239-0Published: 10 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9242-0Published: 10 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9240-6Published: 25 September 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5308

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5316

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 332

  • Number of Illustrations: 308 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Chinese

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