Analysis of Canonical Chinese Antonym Co-occurrence分析汉语规范反义词共生.ppt

Analysis of Canonical Chinese Antonym Co-occurrence Xingfu Wang, Eric Ringger, Guohui Liu, Shiping Liu Chongqing University, China/BYU Contents Aims of this study Comparison between English and Chinese English constructions of antonym pairs Chinese examples to be examined Methods of investigation Cases in CCL Conclusion Future work 1. Objectives of this study To set the canonical Chinese antonym pairs list To analyze whether there are constructions in the semi-idiomatic four-word Chinese chunks To assess the strength and correlation of interpolated words in antonym pairs To evaluate the probability of Chinese antonym pairs expanded by other words 2. Comparison between English and Chinese 老子《道德经》 Thomas Cleary’s English Version of Daoism* 有无相生， 难易相成， 长短相形， 高下相倾， 音声相和， 前后相随。 Being and nonbeing produce each other, difficulty and ease complement each other, long and short shape each other, high and low contrast with each other, voice and echoes conform to each other, before and after go along with each other. Lyons (1977) claimed that there exists a general human tendency to categorize experience in terms of dichotomous contrast’. *http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/taoism/taoism.php?name=taoteching.cleary Google scholar search antonymy, co-occurrence, corpora | corpus 422 反义、同/共现、语料库 47 3. English constructions of antonym pairs (Steven Jones, M. Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis and Caroline Willners, 2007) The term ‘canonical’ was therefore reserved for word pairs that were found to retrieve one another on at least two occasions in at least ten of the fourteen frames. wildcard-first frame wildcard-second frame * and Adj alike Adj and * alike between * and Adj between Adj and * both * and Adj both Adj and * either * or Adj either Adj or * from * to Adj from Adj to * * versus Adj Adj versus * whether * or Adj whether Adj or * Sequence rules of antonym pairs Normal sequence among antonymous pairs is not arbitrarily established. The vast