Electronic Corpus-Aided Grammatical Research of Modern Chinese
博文 杉村 · Bulletin of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan · 2012
This paper makes a brief sketch of electronic corpus-aided grammatical research of Modern Chinese through two particular cases. First, Liu Yuehua’s description on the usage of directional complement ‘shàng (上)’, which shows the beginning of dynamic state, is introduced being verified by electronic corpuses. Next, the syntactic process which make the verb ‘kàn (看)’ acquire the syntax of adhesion verbs is clarified by recognizing in it two semantic features—‘search visual information’ and ‘store visual information’. Finally, this paper points out both the necessity and the limit of the electronic corpus-aided grammatical research.