Chinese Lexical Semantics

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023, held in Singapore, during May 19-21, 2023.

The 61 full papers and 15 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics and related fields, including Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computational Lexicography, Phycological Linguistics, and Sociological linguistics.

Lexical Semantics.- A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers' Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives.- Assessing Lexical Psycholinguistic Properties in Mandarin Discourse Production by Patients with Aphasia.- Research on The Interactive Elements and Functions of Live Streaming Sales Language --Take "hao bu hao" As an Example.- Chinese Optatives: A Preliminary Study.- The Semantic Features And Pragmatic Functions of Cantonese Quasi-demonstrative Type Quantifier di1: A Comparison With Demonstratives ne1 And go2.- A Comparative Study of the General Classifier Gè and its Near-synonyms in Modern Chinese --Taking Gè, Zh ng, and Jiàn as examples.- The Semantic Analysis of Zhexia: from the Perspectives of Spatial Metaphor, Subjectivity and Discourse Function.- Sociolinguistic Aspects of Popular Abbreviations in Hong Kong Cantonese.- The Semantic Features and Construal Mechanisms of the Expectational Negative Adverb Kong in Mandarin.- The Formation Features and Structural Mechanism of Modern Chinese "Vcooking+N" Structure.- Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-alphabet Structure.- Feasibility of Direct Language Transfer of the Verb "To Eat" from Cantonese to Mandarin.- The Usage and Standardization of Function Words in Legislative Chinese Language Overseas: A Case study of Auxiliary Words in the Civil Code of Macao.- The Licensing Contexts of Polarity-sensitive Adverb S huó ('no matter what'): A Force-dynamic Analysis.- The Influence of Neologisms from Mainland China on Changes in the Lexical Semantics of Hong Kong Cantonese.- Research on the Semantic Collocations of Mental Verbs and the Generative Mechanisms of Polysemy The Generative Lexicon Theory Perspective.- Profiling the Mandarin Physical Contact verbs with ná, wò, chí and zhua using collocational, syntactic and discourse features.- Temporal Hái in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: A Presuppositional Account.- A Study on Semantic Shift of Uncivilized Words in Bullet-screen Comments.- A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term bai 'white'.- The Semantic Interpretation of Implicit Negative Compound Nouns.- Semantic Preferences of Biran and Yiding: A Distinctive Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Near-synonymous Constructions of "Mod + Verb".- Zero Anaphora Errors and the Restriction Rules of Zero Anaphora in Discourse for Middle and Senior International Students.- A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of the Spatial Dimension Adjective "Deep/Shallow" from the Perspective of Lexical Typology.- A Study on The Restraining Factors and Its Acting Forces of Selected Components of Chinese Abbreviations.- On the verb Huaiyi with passive voice in Hong Kong-style Chinese.- The Semantic Characteristics of the Counter-Expectation Adverbs "F n'ér" and "Ohiryo" in Chinese and Korean from the Perspective of Comparison.- A Cognitive Approach to the Semantic Change of the Polysemy gàng 'wooden bar'.- An Analysis of One-Dimensional Adjectives from the Perspective of Lexical Semantic Typology.- Semantic Analysis of the Tool-Meaning Quasi-affixes "Ji, Qì, Yí and Jì".- A Study of adding Psychological feeling into the Model of Synaesthesia at the Morpheme Level in Modern Chinese.- Analysis of the Form and Meaning in Collocation of Chinese " V + color " Verb-object Compounds.- The Effect of Working Memory Capacity on the Figurative Language Processing of Chinese Second Language Learners.- A Study on the Use and Integration of the Network Buzzword 'Rùn'.- A Semantic Analysis of Suffocate Verbs.- From Blame to Exclamation: On the Lexicalization Mechanism and Syntactic-Semantic Function of Cross-layer Sequence Form "guài zh guài".- A Research on the Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Comparative Characteristics of the Yu Zhi Zeng Ding Qing Wen Jian Dictionary.- A Study on the Combination of the "Artificial/Natural" Semantics in the Chinese NN Attributive-head Compounds.