Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure

Xinlan ZHAO; Yu Yin Hsu; Chu-Ren Huang

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_11

Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure

Xinlan ZHAO (Corresponding Author), Yu Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang

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Abstract

Mandarin alphabetical words (MAWs) refer to the code-mixing of Romanized letters and characters such as X光 ‘X-ray’ in the Mandarin lexicon. Previous studies have mainly focused on MAWs’ formation but lacked empirical evidence regarding their morpho-syntactic behaviours. Classifiers have been used to infer nominals’ semantic properties and characteristics. An intriguing yet less explored issue is the classifier-selection pattern of MAWs and MAWs’ morpho-syntactic idiosyncrasies. We adopt a corpus-based approach to handle this issue. Assuming that a MAW’s classifier is motivated by the head of that MAW, we hypothesize that when a MAW is integrated into the Mandarin lexicon, its dominant classifiers will be the semantically more specific ones and not the neutral classifier. We show that MAWs share a dominant compounding structure in Mandarin and that MAW's classifier is decided by that head even when the head is represented by alphabets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Subtitle of host publication	24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Editors	Minghui Dong, Jia-Fei Hong, Jingxia Lin, Peng Jin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	130-145
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-97-0583-2
ISBN (Print)	978-981-97-0582-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_11
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2024
Event	The 24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop - National University of Singapore, Singapore Duration: 19 May 2023 → 21 May 2023 https://www.colips.org/conferences/clsw2023/wp/en/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14514 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Workshop

Workshop	The 24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop
Abbreviated title	CLSW 2023
Country/Territory	Singapore
Period	19/05/23 → 21/05/23
Internet address	https://www.colips.org/conferences/clsw2023/wp/en/

Keywords

Mandarin Alphabetical Words
Classifiers
Code-mixing
Corpus-based approach

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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ZHAO, X., Hsu, Y. Y., & Huang, C.-R. (2024). Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure. In M. Dong, J.-F. Hong, J. Lin, & P. Jin (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (pp. 130-145). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14514 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_11

ZHAO, Xinlan ; Hsu, Yu Yin ; Huang, Chu-Ren. / Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. editor / Minghui Dong ; Jia-Fei Hong ; Jingxia Lin ; Peng Jin. Springer, 2024. pp. 130-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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ZHAO, X , Hsu, YY & Huang, C-R 2024, Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure. in M Dong, J-F Hong, J Lin & P Jin (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14514 LNAI, Springer, pp. 130-145, The 24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Singapore, 19/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0583-2_11

Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-Alphabet Structure. / ZHAO, Xinlan (Corresponding Author); Hsu, Yu Yin ; Huang, Chu-Ren.
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. ed. / Minghui Dong; Jia-Fei Hong; Jingxia Lin; Peng Jin. Springer, 2024. p. 130-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14514 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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