From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct

<p>Part I&nbsp;The Function of the Sentence-final Particle ba as Discourse Marker.-&nbsp;A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai+NP+Bian/ Mian/ Tou.-&nbsp;Lexical semantics of Mandarin Carry and Hold Verbs: A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of ná拿and wò握.-&nbsp;Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics.-&nbsp;Native Speakers’ Conceptualization of Force and Motion in the Semantics of Pull Verbs of Hand Action in Mandarin Chinese.-&nbsp;Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese.-&nbsp;A Degree-based Analysis of “V+A+le2” Construction.-&nbsp;A Corpus-based Investigation of yǒu in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker.-&nbsp;On Occasion-quantification and “Occasionally”: the Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jīngcháng and ǒu’ěr.-&nbsp;Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to tɕin in Chengdu Chinese.-&nbsp;Part II&nbsp;The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese.-&nbsp;Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions vs. Prenominal Modifications.-&nbsp;Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese.-&nbsp;Analysis of Objectivity-Descriptive Feature of Chinese Psychological Adjectives Based on Corpus: taking Beishang, Shangxin and Nanguo as examples.-&nbsp;Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.-&nbsp;Part III Construction and Analysis of Chinese Word-formation Knowledge Base Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary.-&nbsp;On The Design of Concise Dictionary of Language Rehabilitation Terms.-&nbsp;The Construction and Annotation of a Semantically Enriched Database: The Mandarin VerbNet and its NLP applications.-&nbsp;A Method of Modern Chinese Irony Detection.-&nbsp;Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency.-&nbsp;A Lexical Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in An Online Car-hailing Company’s Apologetic Statements ——From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory.-&nbsp;GAIGE and REFORM: A Chinese-English Comparative Keywords Study.</p>