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A Comparative Study on the Coordinate Relation of Chinese Official Documents in Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau

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This paper investigates the coordinate relation in Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese and Macau Chinese, including explicit relations, implicit relations and their parallel items. In order to conduct the comparative study, a corpus including official documents of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau has been built. The study shows that the frequency of the explicit coordinate relation appearing in Hong Kong (53.5%) and Macao texts (23.1%) is much higher than that in Mainland China texts (1.5%), and the explicit coordinate relation occurs most frequently in Hong Kong texts. The study also shows that the connective types in Hong Kong (59 types) and Macao texts (21 types) are much more than that in Mainland China texts (11 types). Such differences are probably derived from the English influence on Hong Kong and Macau Chinese, according to the comparative results of the coordinate relation in English and Chinese texts of Hong Kong and Macau.

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    According to Li et al. (2014), there are 4 categories and 17 small class relationships in a total amount.

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Acknowledgments

This paper was supported by Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Project (15YJC740021), Major Projects of Basic Research in Philosophy of Henan Province (2015-JCZD-022), China Postdoctoral Fund (2013M540594), Special innovation project of Guangdong Education Department (17TS07), Key Laboratory of Language Engineering and Computing Laboratory, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 2016 (LEC2016ZBKT001, LEC2016ZBKT002).

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  1. Laboratory of Language Engineering and Computing, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Wenhe Feng, Haifang Guo & Han Ren

  2. National Experimental Teaching Center of Simultaneous Interpreting, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, Guangdong, China

    Wenhe Feng & Dengxia Cao

  3. School of Foreign Languages, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475001, China

    Wenhe Feng, Haifang Guo, Dengxia Cao & Han Ren

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Feng, W., Guo, H., Cao, D., Ren, H. (2018). A Comparative Study on the Coordinate Relation of Chinese Official Documents in Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_66

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