Chinese Lexical Semantics: 19th Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26–28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

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by  Jia-Fei Hong (Editor), Qi Su (Editor), Jiun-Shiung Wu (Editor)

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Preface
The 2018 Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2018) was the 19th event in
theseriesestablishedin2000.CLSWhasbeenheldindifferentAsiancities,including
Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Xiamen, Hsin Chu, Yantai, Suzhou, Wuhan,
Zhengzhou, Macao, Leshan, and Chia-Yi. Over the years, CLSW has become one
of the most important venues for scholars to report and discuss the latest progress in
Chinese lexical semantics and related fields, including theoretical linguistics, applied
linguistics, computational linguistics, information processing, and computational lex-
icography. CLSW has significantly impacted and promoted academic research and
applicationdevelopmentinthefields,andactedasoneofthemostimportantmeetings
in Asia for the Chinese lexical semantics community.
CLSW 2018 was hosted by the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. This
year 150 papers were submitted to the conference. All submissions went through a
double-blind review process. Of these, 51 submissions (34%) were accepted as oral
papersand43(29%)asposterpapers.Theywereorganizedintopicalsectionscovering
allmajortopicsoflexicalsemantics,semanticresources,corpuslinguistics,andnatural
language processing.
On behalf of the Program Committee, we are most grateful to Shiwen Yu (Peking
University), Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xinchun Su
(XiamenUniversity),andtheAdvisoryCommitteefortheirguidanceinpromotingthe
conference. We sincerely appreciate the invited speakers: Jane Tsay (National Chung
Cheng University), Jie Xu (Macau University), Barbara Meisterernst (Humboldt
UniversityatBerlin),YangsenZhang(BeijingUniversityofScienceandTechnology),
and Zhu Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon), for their outstanding keynote talks.
Also, we would like to acknowledge the chairs of the Organizing Committee,
Jiun-Shiung Wu (National Chung Cheng University) and Peng Jin (Leshan Normal
University), for their tremendous contribution to this event.
Our gratitude goes to all the Program Committee members and reviewers for their
time and effort with the reviews. We are pleased that the accepted English papers are
published by Springer as part of their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series and are indexed by EI and SCOPUS.
Last but not the least, we thank all the authors and attendees for their scientific
contribution and participation, which made CLSW 2018 a successful event.
September 2018 Jia-Fei Hong
Baobao Chang
Nianwen Xue
Organization
Program Chairs
Jia-Fei Hong National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Baobao Chang Peking University, China
Nianwen Xue Brandeis University, USA
Program Committee
Ahrens Kathleen Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China
Xiaojing Bai Tsinghua University, China
Shuping Gong National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Kam Fai Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR China
Donghong Ji Wuhan University, China
Peng Jin Leshan Normal University, China
Huei-Ling Lai National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Shimin Li Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan
Yao Liu Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
Maofu Liu Wuhan Technological University, China
Pengyuan Liu Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Chiarung Lu National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Liqung Qiu Ludong University, China
Weiguan Qu Nanjing Normal University, China
Xiaodong Shi Xiamen University, China
Zuoyan Song Beijing Normal University, China
Xinchun Su Xiamen University, China
Le Sun Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shu-Kai Hsieh National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jiajuan Xiong Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
JIe Xu Macau University, SAR China
Ruifeng Xu Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Weidong Zhan Peking University, China
Lei Zhang Northeastern Normal University, China
Yangsen Zhang Beijing Information Science and Technology University,
China
Zezhi Zheng Xiamen University, China
Jingxia Lin Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hong Gao Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yunfang Wu Peking University, China
Siaw-fong Chung National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan
Contents
Lexical Semantics
Noun-Verb Pairs in Taiwan Sign Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jane S. Tsay
A Semantic Analysis of Sense Organs in Chinese Compound Words:
Based on Embodied Cognition and Generative Lexicon Theory . . . . . . . . . . 23
Yin Zhong and Chu-Ren Huang
The Functions of 了liǎo in Singapore Mandarin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Yong Kang Khoo
TheConventionalImplicatureofDōu (Dōu ,Dōu ):OnSemanticsofDōu
b 2 3 b
from the Perspective of Discourse Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Hua Zhong
External Causation and Agentivity in Mandarin Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Shiao Wei Tham
Somewhere in COLDNESS Lies Nibbāna: Lexical Manifestations
of COLDNESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Jiajuan Xiong and Chu-Ren Huang
Grammaticalization of Shuo and Jiang in Singapore Mandarin Chinese:
A Spoken-Corpus-Based Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Jingxia Lin
Internal Structures and Constructional Meanings: ‘Da-X-da-Y’
and Its Related Constructions in Mandarin Chinese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chiarung Lu, I-Ni Tsai, I-Wen Su, and Te-Hsin Liu
Quantifier měi and Two Types of Verbal Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese . . . 107
Hua-Hung Yuan
Research on Basic Vocabulary Extraction Based on Chinese
Language Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Zhimin Wang, Huizhou Zhao, Junping Zhang, and Caihong Cao
Chinese Emotion Commonsense Knowledge Base Construction
and Its Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Liang Yang, Fengqing Zhou, Hongfei Lin, Jian Wang,
and Shaowu Zhang
X Contents
A Comparable Corpus-Based Study of Three DO Verbs in Varieties
of Mandarin: 從事 congshi,做 zuo and 搞 gao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Menghan Jiang and Chu-Ren Huang
From Near Synonyms to Power Relation Variations in Communication:
A Cross-Strait Comparison of “Guli” and “Mianli”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Xiaowen Wang and Chu-Ren Huang
ExploringandAnalyzingtheContact-InducedSemanticTransferringCases
Based on a Sanskrit-Chinese Parallel Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Bing Qiu
The Adjective “dà (big)” and Grammatical Analysis of “dà+N” Structure . . . 175
Qiang Li
Acquiring Unaccusative Verbs in a Second Language: An L1-Mandarin
L2-English Learner Investigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Yu-Leng Lin
A Referendum Is a Forward-Moving Object or a Bundled Object? . . . . . . . . 192
Ren-feng Duann, Kathleen Ahrens, and Chu-Ren Huang
A Cognitive Study on Modern Chinese Construction “V-lai-V-qu” . . . . . . . . 202
Xiaolong Lu
A Study on the Type Coercion of the Causer of Chinese Causative
Verb-Resultative Construction Based on the Generative Lexicon Theory . . . . 225
Yiqiao Xia and Daqin Li
Towards a Lexical Analysis on Chinese Middle Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Lulu Wang
A Study of Color Words in Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Ying Yang, Zhijun Zheng, and Yanqiu Shao
A SkE-Assisted Comparison of Three “Prestige” Near Synonyms
in Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Longxing Li, Chu-Ren Huang, and Xuefeng Gao
“Zuì(the Most)+Noun” Structure from the Perspective
of Construction Grammar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Bin Yang
Buddhist Influence on Chinese Synesthetic Words—A Case Study
of 味 Wèi in the Āgamas and Indigenous Chinese Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Jiandao Shi and Jianxun Shi
Contents XI
The Semantic Differences and Substitution Restrictions of -Zhe(着)
and Zhengzai(正在). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Jie Fan and Chong-ming Ding
TheExpressiveContentoftheAd-Adjectivaltai‘too’inMandarinChinese:
Evidence from Large Online Corpora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Qiongpeng Luo and Fan Liu
A Survey of the Compatibility of Laizhe with the MARVS Model
of Event Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Tong Mu and Yu-Yin Hsu
The Comparative Construction and the Evolution of “ ” [guò yú] . . . . . . 334
Qi Rao, Hui Li, Mengxiang Wang, and Youjie Zheng
On the Conditionof X in “fei X bu ke” Constructions: An Analysis Based
on the BCC Corpus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Peicui Zhang, Lei Wang, and Wentong Sun
A Corpus-Based Lexical Semantic Study of Mandarin Verbs:
Guān and Bì. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Meng-Chieh Lin and Siaw-Fong Chung
Information-Seeking Questions and Rhetorical Questions
in Emotion Expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Helena Yan Ping Lau and Sophia Yat Mei Lee
Verbal Plurality of Frequency Adverbs in Mandarin Chinese:
The Case of Tōngcháng ( ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Daniel Kwang Guan Chan and Hua-Hung Yuan
A Comparative Analysis of Level 1 of the ICCLE and Learners’ Basic
Mental Lexicon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Caihong Cao, Junping Zhang, Huizhou Zhao, and Zhimin Wang
Toward a Unified Semantics for Ū in Ū + Situation in Taiwan Southern
Min: A Modal-Aspectual Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Jiun-Shiung Wu and Zhi-Ren Zheng
Right Dislocation in Cantonese: An Emotion-Intensifying Device . . . . . . . . . 423
Sophia Yat Mei Lee and Christy Choi Ting Lai
TheConstructionalFormofMeaningandtheDifficultyLevelofDefinition
in Chinese Compound Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Enxu Wang and Yulin Yuan
A Corpus-Based Study on the Semantic Prosody of Quasi-Affix “Zu”. . . . . . 445
Yueming Du, Bihua Wang, and Lijiao Yang