A Lexical Semantic Study of Chinese Opposites

• Main Author: Ding, Jing (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, 1
• Subjects: Semantics.; Ontology.; Computational linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.  .