Open AccessRetrieving Linguistic Information from a Corpus on the Example of Negation in Chinese
Author(s) -
Ľuboš Gajdoš
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.9.2.103-115
Subject(s) - negation , linguistics , verb , computer science , corpus linguistics , linguistic analysis , psychology , natural language processing , philosophy
The paper deals with corpus analysis of negation in Chinese, namely the negatives bù 不 and méi/ méiyǒu没/没有. The adverbs BU and MEI are two of the most frequent negatives in Chinese. The aim of this study is to present statistical data together with linguistics analysis. The results provide empirical evidence of discrepancy between “authentic” language data versus linguistic prescription with practical implications for second-language acquisition. The findings inter alia suggest a new approach to verb categorisation.