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Word Ordering in Chinese Opposite Compounds

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2014)

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The semantic factor is considered to play an important role in deciding the word order of compounds. Previous studies on Chinese opposites generally agree with the Pollyanna Principle, but do not offer detailed statistical analysis, especially for opposite compounds. In this paper, we go through 315 opposite pairs in Sinica Corpus and the result shows that, for Chinese opposite compounds, prosodic factor and cultural hierarchy are also crucial for ordering.

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  1. Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Jing Ding & Chu-Ren Huang

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  1. Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

    Xinchun Su

  2. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Tingting He

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Ding, J., Huang, CR. (2014). Word Ordering in Chinese Opposite Compounds. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_2

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