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Based on large scale data of Chinese with syntactic structure annotation, this paper conducts a quantitative study on the ellipsis phenomena of mono-valent nouns and analyzes the reasons for the ellipsis from the cognitive perspective. We firstly developed the word list by looking up the synonyms of the mono-valent nouns that were cited in The New Compilation of Synonym Cilin (Ci Lin). On this basis, millions of annotated data in Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) Treebank 1.0 was selected. Sentences in which mono-valent nouns are omitted or redundant in the syntactic level were screened out with the assistant of specific syntactic tags, so as to verify the ellipsis rules of mono-valent nouns. Finally, from the viewpoint of grammatical metonymy, this paper explains the ellipsis of mono-valent nouns and holds that it is related to the salience of the things they refer to.
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This paper is supported by MOE Funds of Humanity and Social Sciences “Quantitative Research on Words Use in Newspaper since late Qing Dynasty” (20YJC740050) and Innovation Fund Project for Chinese and Foreign Postgraduates of BLCU (supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (20YCX150).
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Chi, X., Rao, G., Xun, E. (2022). A Quantitative Study on Mono-Valent Noun and Its Ellipsis. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13250. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06547-7_30
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