TY - GEN
T1 - A corpus-based study on near-synonymous manner adverbs: “yiran” and “duanran”
AU - Lau, Helena Yan Ping
AU - Lee, Yat Mei
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Manner adverb is one of the major groups of adverbs describing how an action is carried out. Although a number of near-synonymous manner adverbs are found in Chinese, most dictionaries use rather general or even circular definitions for these items which persistently confuse second language learners. The subtle yet important differences between near-synonymous manner adverbs are invisible by definitions but observable in collocational behaviors. Thus, this work aims to examine the semantic differences between a pair of near-synonymous manner adverbs and (resolutely). We propose that near-synonymous manner adverbs can be differentiated in terms of the event structures constructed by the collocated verbs, conjunctions, and nouns.
AB - Manner adverb is one of the major groups of adverbs describing how an action is carried out. Although a number of near-synonymous manner adverbs are found in Chinese, most dictionaries use rather general or even circular definitions for these items which persistently confuse second language learners. The subtle yet important differences between near-synonymous manner adverbs are invisible by definitions but observable in collocational behaviors. Thus, this work aims to examine the semantic differences between a pair of near-synonymous manner adverbs and (resolutely). We propose that near-synonymous manner adverbs can be differentiated in terms of the event structures constructed by the collocated verbs, conjunctions, and nouns.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007197356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_57
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_57
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783319495071
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 630
EP - 642
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 17th Workshop, CLSW 2016, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2016
Y2 - 20 May 2016 through 22 May 2016
ER -