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A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites / by Jing Ding
(Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics. ISSN:25225316 ; 1)

Publisher	(Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2018
Edition	1st ed. 2018.
Authors	*Ding, Jing author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00187745		Springer Social Sciences eBooks (電子ブック)	9789811061844

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XIX, 135 p. 22 illus., 19 illus. in color : online resource
Notes	1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivations -- 1.2 Research Questions -- 1.3 Organization of Chapters -- 2. Literature Review -- 2.1 Definition and Categorization -- 2.2 Some Properties of Being Opposites -- 3. Opposites in Constructions -- 3.1 Research Question -- 3.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 3. 3 Results.- 3. 4 Discussion -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Opposites in Discourse -- 4.1 Research Question and Previous Experiments -- 4.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 4.3 Result -- 4.4 Discussion -- 4.5 Summary -- 5. Opposites and Negation -- 5.1 Research Question.- 5.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 5.3 Result -- 5.4 Discussion -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. Conclusion. 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. HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6184-4
Subjects	LCSH:Semiotics LCSH:Ontology LCSH:Computational linguistics FREE:Semiotics FREE:Ontology FREE:Computational Linguistics
Classification	LCC:P99-99.4 DC23:401.4
ID	8000015009
ISBN	9789811061844