Adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based study

by Wong, May Lai-Yin

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Full title :Adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / May L-Y Wong.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Bern
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (336 p.).

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ISBN:3035104972, 9783035104974, 3034311206, 9783034311205
oclc:ocn835804455

Acknowledgements 13; Abbreviations 15; Chinese Adverbial Subordinators 17; Chapter One: Introduction 19; 1.1 Corpus-based approach to studying adverbial clauses 19; 1.2 Research objectives and the organisation of the book 20; 1.2.1 Brief chapter summaries 22; Chapter Two: General Review 25; 2.1 Defining corpus 25; 2.2 Chinese corpora and their application 26; 2.2.1 A survey of corpora of written Chinese 27; 2.2.2 The PFR Chinese Corpus 28; 2.2.2.1 The PFR tagset 29; 2.2.2.2 The format of the PFR corpus 31.

2.2.2.3 Modifications to the PFR Chinese Corpus: The use of "underscore" and the breakdown into subcorpora 332.2.2.4 The annotation of the sentence boundaries 33; 2.3 An overview of adverbial clauses 35; 2.3.1 Characterisation of adverbial clauses 35; 2.3.1.1 Distinguishing adverbial clauses from complement clauses and relative clauses 36; 2.3.2 Corpus-based approaches to adverbial clauses 37; 2.3.2.1 Syntactic/semantic analyses of adverbial clauses 37; 2.3.2.2 Discourse analyses of adverbial clauses 38; 2.4 Chapter summary 43.

Chapter Three: Treebanking: The Compilation of a Sample PFR Corpus of Skeleton-parsed Sentences 453.1 Introduction 45; 3.2 An overview of past parsing …