Abstract
Chinese guà(挂) type verbs have been concerned by grammarians because they can express the continuous function of “state” and have a complex process. This paper adopts the method of corpus statistical analysis on the real usage of verbs. Firstly, we reclassify guà type verbs based on the distribution of their semantic functions, and make a statistical analysis on the richness, concentration, dominant syntactic constructions and common syntactic constructions used by different nembers of guà type verbs. Based on the results, we emphasize the correspondence between different semantic functions and the syntactic constructions.
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Concentration = \(\sqrt {\frac{{\sum {\text{x}} - {\overline{\text{X}}}}}{{\text{N}}}}\), which means the standard deviation of the percentage distribution of different syntactic constructions used by a verb.
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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, and gratefully acknowledge of the support of the National Natural Social Foundation of China (No. 17AYY011) and the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education (No.20YJAZH110).
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Yang, C., Shi, G., Xing, H., Chai, X. (2022). The Correspondence Between Semantic Functions and Syntactic Constructions of Guà Verbs. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_8
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