Topic: A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs
Author/Speaker: Liulin Zhang
Chair: Fuyin Thomas Li, Editor-in-chief, Cognitive Semantics
Time: 15:00-16:00, March 6 (Saturday) 2021 (Beijing time)
Venue: 騰訊會議
會議 ID:350 927 705
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A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs Liulin Zhang Liulin, Zhang. 2019. A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs.Cognitive Semantics, (5)1:1-31. Abstract Trying to situate Chinese into the typology of labile verbs (verbs that may be used transitively or intransitively), this paper analyzes Chinese labile verbals under the framework of cognitive construction grammar. By exhaustively looking at labile ver?bals in a small corpus, it is found that as an isolating language in which causative (tran?sitive use) or anticausative (intransitive use) is not morphologically marked, Chinese is particularly rich in labile verbals. After estimating how often several target verbals are used transitively and intransitively, two factors grounded in human cognition are revealed determining verbal lability in Chinese: change of state and spontaneity of the event. Change-of-state events give way to two competing profiling strategies, realized as a transitive construction and an intransitive construction, respectively. The degree and direction (transitive-dominated or intransitive-dominated) of verbal lability are sensitive to the likelihood of spontaneous occurrence of the event. Author/Speaker 張榴琳,蘇州大學(xué)文學(xué)院講師,優(yōu)秀青年學(xué)者,夏威夷大學(xué)馬諾分校東亞語言與文學(xué)博士,曾于美國杜魯門州立大學(xué)擔(dān)任中文助理教授。主要研究興趣包括漢語語法、認(rèn)知語言學(xué)和構(gòu)式語法,有多篇論文發(fā)表在國際期刊上,包括Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación(SSCI收錄)、Cognitive Semantics、Chinese as a Second Language Research等。所主持項目《漢語中的主賓轉(zhuǎn)換現(xiàn)象和狀態(tài)改變構(gòu)式研究》2020年獲國家社科基金后期資助項目資助,另外曾獲得多項教學(xué)、科研獎勵。個人主頁:www.liulinzhang.cometc. Liulin Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Soochow University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawai?i at Mānoa. Mostly focusing on Chinese, her research interests include cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, and psycholinguistics. Oriented at the relationship between language and cognition, her research primarily approaches cognition via lexical semantics, the conceptual schemas underlying language constructions and the interaction between them. Based upon the contrast between Chinese and other languages, and utilizing corpus data and experimentation, she has been trying to bring to light some general characteristics of human conceptualization, as well as the special features of Chinese that need to be accounted for by extra-linguistic knowledge including culture, geography, history, etc.
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