The Manner/Result Complementarity in Chinese Motion Verbs Revisited

The influence of motion features in temporal perception

This paper examines the role of manner-of-motion verbs in shaping subjective temporal perception and emotional resonance. Through four complementary studies, we explore how these verbs influence the conceptualization of …

A Dependency Treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon

We present a dependency treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, which contains 1,514 texts with about 50 million Chinese characters. The treebank was created by an automatic parser trained on a smaller treebank, containi…

A MARVS Analysis of Two Chinese Near-Synonymous Verbs of Jumping Based on Chinese Corpora

Generating Simulations of Motion Events from Verbal Descriptions

In this paper, we describe a computational model for motion events in natural language that maps from linguistic expressions, through a dynamic event interpretation, into three-dimensional temporal simulations in a model…

Evolution of Part-of-Speech in Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese is a language notable for its word class flexibility: the same word may often be used as a noun or a verb. Bisang (2008) claimed that Classical Chinese is a precategorical language, where the syntactic …