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Valency Dictionaries and Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition for Foreign Learners

Lexikos, 2020-01, Vol.30, p.1-32 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Valency Dictionaries and Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition for Foreign Learners
Author: Gao, Jun ; Liu, Haitao
Subjects: Chinese as a second language ; Chinese languages ; chinese valency dictionary ; chinese vocabulary acquisition ; Collocations ; complementation patterns ; Corpus linguistics ; Dictionaries ; Foreign language learning ; Humanities, Multidisciplinary ; Language proficiency ; learner corpus ; Learner's dictionaries ; lexical misuse ; logical-semantic valency ; native speaker corpus ; Pragmatics ; Second language learning ; Second language vocabulary learning ; semantic-pragmatic valency ; Semantics ; Syntactic processing ; syntactic valency ; Syntax ; Valence ; valency entry ; Vocabulary learning
Is Part Of: Lexikos, 2020-01, Vol.30, p.1-32
Description: Valency is a major source of lexical errors in foreign language learning. Accordingly, the research question is how the syntactic and semantic properties of a word can be retrieved from the corpora and represented in a Chinese valency dictionary to facilitate foreign learners' vocabulary acquisition. Within the three aspects of the valency framework - logical-semantic, syntactic and semantic-pragmatic valency - this study examines 60 cases of Chinese lexical misuse extracted from the HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Test) Dynamic Compositions Corpus. The results suggest that the majority of cases of misuse occur in the dimension of semantic-pragmatic valency and that this semantic-pragmatic misuse can be ascribed to various factors such as semantic collocations, emotive variables, text styles, registers, and other contextual factors. The results are then utilized as syntactic, semantic and pragmatic information to be presented in a Chinese valency dictionary. Specifically, the results obtained from a case study of a misused word by referring to a large-scale native Chinese speaker corpus help retrieve a relatively full list of complementation patterns, based on which the study designs a Chinese valency entry that embodies three basic elements - quantitative valency, qualitative valency and valency patterns.
Publisher: Stellenbosch: Buro van die Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (Bureau of the WAT)
Language: English;Portuguese;Afrikaans
Identifier: ISSN: 1684-4904
ISSN: 2224-0039
EISSN: 2224-0039
DOI: 10.5788/30-1-1548
Source: SciELO
African Journals Online (Open Access)
ProQuest Central
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

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