This paper introduces the infrastructure and the principles of a semantic framework used for
the analysis and classification of verbs, developed with the aim of constructing a lexical …

This thesis investigates lexical and grammatical aspect in two unrelated languages,
Sencoten (the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish) and Japanese. In particular, the main focus …

Lexical semantics was deemed peripheral in formal linguistics' early pursuit of a rule-based
account of language since lexicon is viewed as the repository of idiosyncrasies and …

This study examines a near synonym pair fangbian and bianli,'to be convenient,'and extracts
the contrasts that dictate their semantic and associated syntactic behaviors. Corpus data …

This article investigates the evolution of social distancing terms in Chinese and English in
two geographically close yet culturally distinct metropolitan cities: Hong Kong and …

This work is a study of verbal semantics with a focus on the discussion and illustration of the
role of body parts and the semantic incorporation into verbal roots of the actions that involve …

Extended-HowNet: A Representational Framework for Concepts Page 1 Extended-HowNet:
A Representational Framework for Concepts Keh-Jiann Chen, Shu-Ling Huang, Yueh-Yin …

Abstract YR Chao's (1955)'Notes on Chinese Grammar and Logic'illustrated how logical
relations are encoded in Chinese Grammar and his Chinese grammar (Chao 1968) …

This study aims to identify the lexical semantic distinctions of Mandarin carry and hold verbs
by comparing their syntactic and semantic behaviors from a frame-based constructional …

We propose a novel approach of applying large language models (LLMs) to better identify
the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) of learners of Chinese as a foreign language …