From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese

Sicong Dong; Chu-ren Huang

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_2

From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese

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Abstract

The verbs indicating the occurrence of frost in Chinese have undergone a diachronic change. Ancient Chinese chiefly uses non-volitional verbs with downward movement meanings, while Sinitic languages widely adopt 打 dǎ ‘to hit’, an action verb with high transitivity. This modern usage develops from the transitive verb 打 dǎ ‘to hit’ denoting frost damage in ancient Chinese through conventionalization and semantic bleaching. Speakers of Chinese using this verb have experienced frost distinctively, which leads to the linguistic innovation. The geographical distribution of frost verbs and frost damage provides clues to this relation between weather and language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Subtitle of host publication	22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021 Nanjing, China, May 15–16, 2021 Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Editors	Minghui Dong, Yanhui Gu, Jia-Fei Hong
Publisher	Springer Cham
Pages	22-30
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-06703-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-06702-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_2
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2022
Event	Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop - Duration: 15 May 2021 → 16 May 2021

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13249
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Name	Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2945-9133
ISSN (Electronic)	2945-9141

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Conference	Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop
Period	15/05/21 → 16/05/21

Keywords

Weather verb
Frost
Geolinguistics
Diachronic change
Sinitic languages

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Dong, S., & Huang, C. (2022). From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese. In M. Dong, Y. Gu, & J.-F. Hong (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021 Nanjing, China, May 15–16, 2021 Revised Selected Papers, Part I (pp. 22-30). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13249), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_2

Dong, Sicong ; Huang, Chu-ren. / From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021 Nanjing, China, May 15–16, 2021 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. editor / Minghui Dong ; Yanhui Gu ; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer Cham, 2022. pp. 22-30 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence).

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Dong, S & Huang, C 2022, From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese. in M Dong, Y Gu & J-F Hong (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021 Nanjing, China, May 15–16, 2021 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13249, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Cham, pp. 22-30, Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, 15/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_2

From Falling to Hitting: Diachronic Change and Synchronic Distribution of Frost Verbs in Chinese. / Dong, Sicong; Huang, Chu-ren.
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021 Nanjing, China, May 15–16, 2021 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. ed. / Minghui Dong; Yanhui Gu; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer Cham, 2022. p. 22-30 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13249), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence).

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