A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites EPUB
by Jing Ding
Part of the Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics series
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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.
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- Publisher:Springer Nature Singapore
- Publication Date:15/11/2017
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- ISBN:9789811061844
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Springer Nature Singapore
- Publication Date:15/11/2017
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- ISBN:9789811061844