Chinese Lexical Semantics 21st Workshop, CLSW 2020, Hong Kong, China, May 28–30, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2020.

The Quasi Causativity of Chinese Preposition "you(by)".- Event Structure and Logical Semantic Operations of the Chinese Character Shì Used for Emphasis.- Nominal Marker “de” in Mandarin Chinese and Its Role of Marking Presupposition.- An Analysis of the Word Formation Process for Negative Quasi-prefixes “fei” and “wu” in Modern Chinese.- A Semantic Study on Frame Constructions of  Four Characters.- Angry Thunder and Vicious Frost: Remarks on the Unaccusativity of Chinese Weather Verbs.- Degree Intensification and Sentential Functions in Chengdu Chinese.- Polysemy of  tui: An Image-schema-based Approach.- A Study on the Semantic Change of the Chinese Negative Adverb Bùshèn.- The Interplay between Emojis and Linguistic Text.- Subjective Negative Structure in Chinese: A Case Study of “Da `Big' + NP (de)” Sentence with the Uncorrelated Relations.- Diachronic Evolution of the Verb "Give".- The Memetic Transmission of Chinese yi-item Idioms.- Sequencing of Grammatical Items in Textbooks Oriented Towards International Chinese Language Education.- A Study on the Construction Features of “Pan X”.- The Grammaticalization of Mandarin Diao.- Mandarin Physical Contact Verbs: A Frame-based Constructional Approach.- Functional Diffusion and Decategorization of Bai: From a Colour Term to an Implicit Negative Adverb.- On the Behavior and Event Structure of `Eating Steamed Buns Dipped in Human Blood’.- The Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Distinctions of Sui-X: Taking the Example of suídì and suíchù.- Grammatical Development and Semantic Change of the Qià-based Lexical Cluster:  From Objective Match to Subjective Evaluation.- Analysis of the Characteristics of Metaphors in News Reviews on the China-US Trade War.- A Study on the Evolution of Post-Nominal Plural Expressions in Chinese based on Tagged Corpora.- Deriving Various Affected Subjects in Bei-passives.- Affective Semantics and Regulatory Modes of the Word “KE” in Text-based Sentiment Analysis.- Accomplishment Predicates in Mandarin and Their Lexical Semantics.- A Survey on Chinese as Second Language Learners’ Acquisition of the Structural Auxiliary Word “de”.- On the Adequacy of Grammatical Description: The Case of Ròujiámó.- An Analysis of the Inferential Meaning of Chinese Even-Construction for Semantic Parsing.- On the Interaction of Future and Perfective Aspect in Mandarin Chinese.- Comparison and Sense Induction of Temporal Adverbs Reng and Hai: A Corpus-Based Study.- Citation Network, Knowledge and Evaluation:  The Role of Reporting Markers in Citation Content Analysis.- Multi-task Learning Neural Networks for Comparative Elements Extraction.- Who Killed Sanmao and Virginia Woolf? A Comparative Study of Writers with Suicidal Attempt Based on a Quantitative Linguistic Method.- A Study on Semantic Features of Antonymous Verbs Based on Lexical Knowledge System .- The Construction of Knowledge Base on Pre-Qin Chinese Reduplication.- Exploring Reasoning Scheme: A Dataset for Syllogism Figure Identification.- Attentive Intra-modality Fusion for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis.- Construction of a General Lexical-Semantic Knowledge Graph.- A Study of the Polysemy Distribution of Mongolian.- Generating Dialogue Responses with Latent Lexical Meaning.- The Effect of Word Frequency and Position-in-utterance in Mandarin Speech Errors: A Connectionist Model of Speech Production.- Morpheme-based Chemical Term Analysis and Recognition.- Revisiting Tibetan Word Segmentation with Neural Networks.- A Study of KIND Metaphors and Simile Annotation Using Dependency Parsing and ConceptNet.- A Research on the Generation Model and Evaluation Model of Chinese Wu-Qing couplets.- The Development of the Semantic Network of Chinese as Second Language Learners’ Production: From the Perspective of Collocations.- Classifying Wu-Qing Couplets and General Couplets with Structural and Semantic Features.- The Construction of a Collocation List Based on Academic Papers of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.- Militarization of Newspaper Language – Diachronic Study of War Metaphor in People's Daily.- The Construction and Application of an Emotion Knowledge Base for Prose Reading Comprehension .- Diachronic Changes and Multi-dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Sentence Complexity in Contemporary Chinese Written Language.- ARSCC: An Assisted Reading System for Contemporary Chinese Based on Multi-Aspect Analysis.- BIPRE: Bi-directional Inter-Personal Relationship Extraction Task.- Building a Pediatric Medical Corpus: Word Segmentation and Named Entity Annotation.- Construction of Chinese Medicine Knowledge Base.- MDPeQA: A Pediatric Question Answering System Based on Multiple Data Sources.- Comparison of Changes between Mainland China and Taiwan.- The Collocations of Chinese Tactile Adjectives.- A Study on the Classification of Chinese Interrogatives Based on Pragmatic Functions.- A Research on the Evolution of Chinese Semantics Based on Distributed Representation.- Lexical Semantic Evolution of Polysemous Words in Ancient Chinese—Taking "zou" as an Example.- A DM-based Approach to the Lack of Monomorphemic Causative Verbs in Mandarin Chinese.- A Study of Complement Coercion in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from an Acceptability Judgment Task.- Significance and Application of Time Parameters in Intelligibility Test.- A Preliminary Study of Confusable Words in L2 Chinese Textbooks.- Speaker Commitment in Mandarin Conditional Connectives: Distributional and Experimental Evidence.- A Corpus-Based Study on the Classification and Processing Mechanism of English-Chinese One-to-Many Translation-Equivalent Word Pairs.- Cognitive Styles Underlying the Contradiction of Temporal Direction between Chinese qián/hòu and Their English Counterparts forward/back.- Exploring Chinese Lexicon Knowledge in Biliteracy Development of International Students in Hong Kong.- Semantic Classification and Cognitive Mechanism of Chinese “Body-Parts” Compounds with Semantic Exocentricity.- Mandarin Children’s Acquisition of  Numeral Container Classifier Phrases.- Effects of Lexical Spatial-Temporal Metaphors on Mandarin and Cantonese Speakers’  Temporal Conceptualizations.- Occasion-level Classifiers vs. Event-level Classifiers in Child Mandarin .- The First Experiment .