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Analysis of the Collocation of “AA-Type Adjectives” Based on MLC Corpus

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Based on the data of “Modern Chinese Dictionary” and Media Language Corpus of Communication University of China, and according to the position of “AA-type adjectives” in the whole collocation, the 104 “AA-type adjectives” studied in this paper can be divided into three categories. They are post-positioning, pre-positioning, and the unlocated respectively. This paper focuses on the syntactic features of “AA-type adjectives and their collocations”, the five types of their expressions, and the comparative analysis of the internal structural relationships of the five collocation types, with a view to provide ideas and clues to the semantic study of “AA-type adjectives and their collocations” and second language teaching.

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    Removing the 87 none results and irrelevant results in MLC (name of person or different pronunciation) is 144; these 144 AA adjectives have examples, but some appear fewer, such as: changchang 怅怅 (2), huanghuang 皇皇 (12), etc., so such AA-type adjectives with less frequency need to be excluded.

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This research project is supported by Science Foundation of Beijing Language and Culture University (supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”) (Approval number 19 YJ010110). The work is also supported by Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China (18ZDA295). During the process of writing this paper, Zhimin Wang, Huizhou Zhao and Chunhong Liu has provided me with much support and encouragement. My thank also goes to Qingqing Lv and Yuan Qi, two post-graduates who provided assistance during the translation of this paper. The author is in charge of any improper matters in the article.

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Zhang, J., Song, R., Zhu, T., Cao, C., Yuan, M. (2020). Analysis of the Collocation of “AA-Type Adjectives” Based on MLC Corpus. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_70

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