From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct

Part I The Function of the Sentence-final Particle ba as Discourse Marker.- A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai+NP+Bian/ Mian/ Tou.- Lexical semantics of Mandarin Carry and Hold Verbs: A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of ná?and wò?.- Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics.- Native Speakers' Conceptualization of Force and Motion in the Semantics of Pull Verbs of Hand Action in Mandarin Chinese.- Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese.- A Degree-based Analysis of "V+A+le2" Construction.- A Corpus-based Investigation of you in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker.- On Occasion-quantification and "Occasionally": the Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jingcháng and ou'er.- Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to t?in in Chengdu Chinese.- Part II The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese.- Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions vs. Prenominal Modifications.- Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese.- Analysis of Objectivity-Descriptive Feature of Chinese Psychological Adjectives Based on Corpus: taking Beishang, Shangxin and Nanguo as examples.- Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.- Part III Construction and Analysis of Chinese Word-formation Knowledge Base Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary.- On The Design of Concise Dictionary of Language Rehabilitation Terms.- The Construction and Annotation of a Semantically Enriched Database: The Mandarin VerbNet and its NLP applications.- A Method of Modern Chinese Irony Detection.- Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency.- A Lexical Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in An Online Car-hailing Company's Apologetic Statements --From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory.- GAIGE and REFORM: A Chinese-English Comparative Keywords Study.