Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang

Yaoru Ye; Yu Yin Hsu

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_24

Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang

Yaoru Ye, Yu Yin Hsu (Corresponding Author)

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

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Abstract

The synonym of epistemic “think” in Chinese is understudied. This study surveys the usage of five synonyms of verbs related to “think” – renwei, juede, yiwei, xiang, and kaolü – by using the Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese. By studying the contexts of the target verbs, we report the distributions of three types of nouns and two types of adverbs in relation to the target verbs among three genres, and then we discuss their potential effects on epistemic evidentiality. Next, we conduct a survey study to examine native speakers’ judgments of the epistemic evidentiality of sentences that contain the five target verbs with the types of nouns and adverbs extracted from the Sinia corpus. The results show that “renwei” has the highest ratings of evidentiality, followed by “juede,” while “yiwei” and “xiang” have the lowest mean ratings. “Kaolü” is often regarded as irrelevant or neutral concerning epistemic evidentiality.

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 II
Editors	Minghui Dong, Jia-Fei Hong, Jingxia Lin, Peng Jin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	301-315
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-97-0586-3
ISBN (Print)	978-981-97-0585-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_24
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	14515 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

Cognitive Verbs
Near-Synonyms
Evidentiality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Ye, Y., & Hsu, Y. Y. (2024). Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang. 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 II (pp. 301-315). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14515 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_24

Ye, Yaoru ; Hsu, Yu Yin. / Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin : A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. editor / Minghui Dong ; Jia-Fei Hong ; Jingxia Lin ; Peng Jin. Springer, 2024. pp. 301-315 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Ye, Y & Hsu, YY 2024, Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang. 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 II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14515 LNAI, Springer, pp. 301-315, The 24th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Singapore, 19/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_24

Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-Based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang. / Ye, Yaoru; Hsu, Yu Yin (Corresponding Author).
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Singapore, Singapore, May 19–21, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. ed. / Minghui Dong; Jia-Fei Hong; Jingxia Lin; Peng Jin. Springer, 2024. p. 301-315 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14515 LNAI).

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