Abstract
Definitions in language-specific Chinese-English learner’s dictionaries, which target at English-speaking Chinese learners, should treat the non-correspondences between Chinese and English in a language-specific way while meeting the learnability requirement of general Chinese learner’s dictionaries. This study, taking Chinese collective classifier “bǎ” as an example, adopting the Collostructional Analysis, proposes the model for defining Chinese collective classifiers in language-specific Chinese-English learner’s dictionaries. Firstly, the Collostructional Analysis of “bǎ” obtains the collostructional features of the main constructions of “bǎ”; then, the English counterparts of “bǎ” are filtered out, based on which the comparative study on “bǎ” and its English counterparts is conducted to summarize their degrees of correspondence; and then, the microstructure definitions of “bǎ” in six dictionaries are studied; finally, based on the preliminary findings, the language-specific definition model is proposed, followed by the exemplar entry of “bǎ”.
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Li, Z., Congmei, C. (2022). The Collostruction-Based Definition Model in Language-Specific Chinese-English Learner’s Dictionaries: The Case of Chinese Collective Classifier ‘Bǎ’. 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_9
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