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Having been debated and studied for more than one century, the part-of-speech classifications of contemporary Chinese words is still attracting considerable attention from many linguists today. In this study, we aim to compare the classification systems of two lexicons C Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese (Fifth Edition) and Grammatical Knowledge-Base of Contemporary Chinese, and to observe the similarities and differences between their part-of-speech classifications of words in a comprehensive way. This paper discusses our preliminary observations, especially on the comparison of prepositions in the two lexicons. We expect that this type of contrastive studies will contribute to a deeper understanding of the parts-of-speech in Chinese, especially to the part-of-speech classification of certain Chinese words, which has long been debated.
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Qiu, L., Zan, H., Zhu, X., Yu, S. (2015). A Preliminary Contrastive Study on the Part-of-Speech Classifications of Two Lexicons. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_52
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