TY - GEN
T1 - Variations in Alternative Pattern of Light Verb Construction Between Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin
AU - Jiang, Menghan
AU - Huang, Chu Ren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/4/25
Y1 - 2023/4/25
N2 - In this study, we examine the variations in the alternative pattern of light verb construction between Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin, based on a large-scale comparable corpora statistical approach. The results show that these two variants display significant differences in preference for introducing the theme of the taken complement of the light verb, and Taiwan light verb significantly favors two specific alternations: e.g., 进行对可行性研究 jinxing dui kexingxing yanjiu, 进行研究可行性 jinxing yanjiu kexingxing ‘to conduct research on practicability’. Moreover, we have also shown that some linguistic factors influence the alternations’ choices: e.g., the complexity of the theme. Based on the observations, we further argue that the specific alternations in Taiwan indicate the different syntactic types of light verb complements in the two language variations.
AB - In this study, we examine the variations in the alternative pattern of light verb construction between Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin, based on a large-scale comparable corpora statistical approach. The results show that these two variants display significant differences in preference for introducing the theme of the taken complement of the light verb, and Taiwan light verb significantly favors two specific alternations: e.g., 进行对可行性研究 jinxing dui kexingxing yanjiu, 进行研究可行性 jinxing yanjiu kexingxing ‘to conduct research on practicability’. Moreover, we have also shown that some linguistic factors influence the alternations’ choices: e.g., the complexity of the theme. Based on the observations, we further argue that the specific alternations in Taiwan indicate the different syntactic types of light verb complements in the two language variations.
KW - Corpus-Based Approach
KW - Language Variation
KW - Light Verb Construction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85161445725
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-28953-8_24
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85161445725
SN - 9783031289521
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 312
EP - 322
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics
A2 - Su, Qi
A2 - Xu, Ge
A2 - Yang, Xiaoyan
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022
Y2 - 14 May 2022 through 15 May 2022
ER -