Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers: a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature

John S.Y. Lee; Fangqiong Zhan; Wenxiu Xie; Xiao Han; Chi-Yin Chow; Kam-Yiu Lam

doi:10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.1

Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers: a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature

John S.Y. Lee, Fangqiong Zhan, Wenxiu Xie, Xiao Han, Chi-Yin Chow, Kam-Yiu Lam

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This paper investigates the use of standard and non-standard adverbial markers in modern Chinese literature. In Chinese, adverbials can be derived from many adjectives, adverbs and verbs with the suffix “de”. The suffix has a standard and a non-standard written form, both of which are frequently used. Contrastive research on these two competing forms has mostly been qualitative or limited to small text samples. In this first large-scale quantitative study, we present statistics on 346 adverbial types from an 8-million-character text corpus drawn from Chinese literature in the 20th century. We present a semantic analysis of the verbs modified by adverbs with standard and non-standard markers, and a chronological analysis of marker choice among six prominent modern Chinese authors. We show that the non-standard form is more frequently used when the adverbial modifies an emotion verb. Further, we demonstrate that marker choice is correlated to text genre and register, as well as the writing style of the author. ©2023 Association for Computational Linguistics

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2023
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	1–9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-959429-54-8
ISBN (Print)	9781959429548
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.1
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2023
Event	7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2023) - Hybrid, Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 5 May 2023 → 5 May 2023

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City	Dubrovnik
Period	5/05/23 → 5/05/23

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Lee, J. S. Y., Zhan, F., Xie, W., Han, X., Chow, C.-Y., & Lam, K.-Y. (2023). Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers: a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature. In The 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature: Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2023 (pp. 1–9). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.1

Lee, John S.Y. ; Zhan, Fangqiong ; Xie, Wenxiu et al. / Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers : a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature. The 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature: Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. pp. 1–9

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Lee, JSY , Zhan, F , Xie, W, Han, X, Chow, C-Y & Lam, K-Y 2023, Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers: a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature. in The 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature: Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–9, 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5/05/23. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.1

Standard and Non-standard Adverbial Markers: a Diachronic Analysis in Modern Chinese Literature. / Lee, John S.Y.; Zhan, Fangqiong ; Xie, Wenxiu et al.
The 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature: Proceedings of LaTeCH-CLfL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. p. 1–9.

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