TY - GEN
T1 - On the Limitations of Constructional Innovation
T2 - 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2021
AU - Zhang, Lei
AU - Yang, Shanshan
AU - Dong, Sicong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The present study addresses the limitations of constructional innovation by looking into the case of “你必须知道的 NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know), an emerging construction popular in Chinese titles. Upon linguistic data collection and case analysis, it is found that, constructional innovation, while fulfilling the expected functions, is at the same time subject to the context of linguistic innovation. On one hand, new constructions with certain functional attributes have a better chance of rising from a specific context. The rise of the “你必须知道的NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know) as a popular title option in the Chinese new media is believed to benefit from its functional attributes that “highlight high-value information”, “express the author’s stance”, and “recruit readers’ empathy”. On the other hand, newly emerging constructions are restricted by the linguistic context as well. Therefore, the construction “你必须知道的NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know) is distinctive in both its form and semantics.
AB - The present study addresses the limitations of constructional innovation by looking into the case of “你必须知道的 NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know), an emerging construction popular in Chinese titles. Upon linguistic data collection and case analysis, it is found that, constructional innovation, while fulfilling the expected functions, is at the same time subject to the context of linguistic innovation. On one hand, new constructions with certain functional attributes have a better chance of rising from a specific context. The rise of the “你必须知道的NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know) as a popular title option in the Chinese new media is believed to benefit from its functional attributes that “highlight high-value information”, “express the author’s stance”, and “recruit readers’ empathy”. On the other hand, newly emerging constructions are restricted by the linguistic context as well. Therefore, the construction “你必须知道的NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know) is distinctive in both its form and semantics.
KW - Constructional innovation
KW - Limitations
KW - “你必须知道的NP” [ni bixu zhidao de NP] (NP that you must know)
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85133024679
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_21
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85133024679
SN - 9783031067020
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 278
EP - 292
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 22nd Workshop, CLSW 2021, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Dong, Minghui
A2 - Gu, Yanhui
A2 - Hong, Jia-Fei
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 15 May 2021 through 16 May 2021
ER -