Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most
pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to …

Why are fog, dew, and frost said to “fall” in some languages when they don't in the physical
world? We explore this seeming infelicity to study the nature of linguistic conceptualization …

Semantic transparency refers to the degree to which the meaning of the whole word can be
inferred from its constituents. For Chinese, semantic radicals generally carry information …

Semantic transparency deals with the interface between lexical semantics and morphology.
It is an important linguistic phenomenon in Chinese in the context of prediction of meanings …

Precipitation, condensation and suspension are different meteorological events involving
water in different forms. They are conceptualised and conventionalised with various verbal …

Metaphors are compact packages of information with rich cultural background information.
As one of the most powerful linguistic forms with non-literal meaning, metaphor detection in …

We present in this paper a study of the conceptualisation of meteorological events involving
water in Chinese based on Hantology, a SUMO-based ontology of Chinese orthography …

The development of emergent literacy, a precursor to formal reading, has been linked to
subsequent conventional literacy skills in Chinese children. The factors important for …

Among contemporary Chinese characters, approximately 80% are semantic-phonetic
compound characters, which consist of a phonetic radical that signals pronunciations and a …

Automatic extraction of grammatical knowledge from corpora has been one of the ultimate
goals and challenges of corpus linguistics. We present in this paper one of the approaches …