Lingua Sinica
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Semantic relation identification for consecutive predicative constituents in Chinese
Tập 3 Số 1 - 2017
Winds and tigers: metaphor choice in China’s anti-corruption discourse
Tập 3 - Trang 1-26 - 2017
This article examines metaphor choice in China’s official anti-corruption discourse. Drawing on corpus data, we analyze the metaphors used by the Chinese Communist Party and its flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily, to frame the anti-corruption campaign and influence public perception. It is found that both embodied experience and cultural models are recruited as the metaphoric vehicles or sourc......
Non-root modals for the past and temporal shifting in Mandarin Chinese
Tập 1 - Trang 1-22 - 2015
This paper has two major goals. First, it provides a detailed empirical description of how the epistemic and metaphysical readings of the “non-root modal + Perf(ect) have” construction in English (e.g., John might have won the game yesterday) are expressed in Mandarin Chinese. The two readings both involve non-root modals for the past, i.e., non-root modals with either a past temporal perspective ......
Age-related differences in the acceptability of non-canonical word orders in Mandarin Chinese
Tập 4 - Trang 1-25 - 2018
Prior theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the subject-object-verb (SOV) word order is more restricted and more difficult to process than the object-subject-verb (OSV) word order in Chinese. However, few studies have investigated the actual acceptability of non-canonical, verb-final word orders among native speakers. In this study, we conducted a paper-based survey with a group ......
The effect of speaker gender and talker proficiency on the realization of Taiwan Min /dz/ among young speakers
Tập 4 - Trang 1-36 - 2018
This study examined how speaker gender and talker proficiency affected realization of Taiwan Min /dz/ among young speakers of the 漳 Chiang and Mix dialect. Ten males and seven females with adequate proficiency were recruited to perform a paragraph reading task. Five major variant categories were observed, including dental sibilant, dental nonsibilant, velar obstruent, lateral, and retroflex. Gende......
Extracting Chinese polarity shifting patterns from massive text corpora
Tập 2 - Trang 1-22 - 2016
In sentiment analysis, polarity shifting means shifting the polarity of a sentiment clue that expresses emotion, evaluation, etc. Compared with other natural language processing (NLP) tasks, extracting polarity shifting patterns from corpora is a challenging one because the methods used to shift polarity are flexible, which often invalidates fully automatic approaches. In this study, which aimed t......
Modality and aspect and the thematic role of the subject in Late Archaic and Han period Chinese: obligation and necessity
Tập 3 - Trang 1-35 - 2017
In this paper, the interplay of modal markers with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese is at issue. Abraham and Leiss (Modality-aspect interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, 2008) propose a strong and possibly universal relation between the verbal aspect and either the root/deontic or the epistemic reading of a modal verb based on data from the Germanic languages. In ......
Pragmatic effects of polarity items revealing focal prominence in Mandarin word order
Tập 3 - Trang 1-27 - 2017
This paper investigates the information structure of Mandarin Chinese word order through studying the distribution of minimizers, a distinct class of negative polarity items. The emphatic nature of minimizers is an effective indicator for distinguishing the strength of focal prominence in different syntactic construals. The corpus analysis compares the frequency of minimizers in different word ord......
Encoding motion events in Chinese and the “scalar specificity constraint”
Tập 1 - Trang 1-29 - 2015
Mandarin Chinese often expresses motion events with more than one verbal motion morpheme, e.g., 退 tui ‘recede’ and 回 hui ‘return’ in 退回房間裏 tui-hui fangjian-li recede-return room-inside ‘return into the room’. Building on recent work on “scale structure”, this paper proposes a “Motion Morpheme Hierarchy” that can be used to better predict the order of co-occurring motion morphemes: specifically, Ch......