Study On The Chinese Verbs That Indicate The Motion Of Hands Based On Corpus

The verbs that indicate the motion of hands (for short, we used VIMH) are a part of verb, and they are classified according to their meaning. They are a typical kind of verbs on the fields of grammar. They belong to basic vocabulary in the sight of lexicology. The motion of hands is a way to change nature and to reform the society of human beings, at the same time it is a way for people to communicate with each other. So this dissertation focuses on a full-scale and thorough research of VIMH following the theory of grammar and lexicology, in order to supply the solid data and effective analysis method of VIMH for Chinese information processing.The dissertation falls into six chapters. Chapter one: introduction; chapter two: the static analysis of VIMH; chapter three: the quantitative analysis of VIMH; chapter four: the analysis of the compound words by the morpheme of VIMH; chapter five: the collocation of VIMH; chapter six: the application of the research on VIMH.In chapter one, firstly we show that this research is necessary to the theory of linguistics and the applied fields; then we introduce the history and situation of the research on the verbs and VIMH; at last we account for the guiding theories and research methods of this dissertation.In chapter two, we define the terms of the verbs that indicate the motion of hands and explain the classification and character of them, and count for the number and the distribution of the sememes of VIMH. Then we discuss the abstract meaning of VIMH according to the extension relationship between the sememes of VIMH. Finally we study on the defining vocabulary of VIMH and the defining way to VIMH. We find out the difference between the defining vocabulary of Hanyu Da Cidian and Xiandai Hanyu Dongci Da Cidian, meanwhile we point out the problems of the definition of VIMH in dictionary.In chapter three, we introduce the intention, principle, type and distribution of the annotated corpus, developing procedure of the annotated corpus which are expounded. From the statistical data, we show that VIMH are used with high frequency. The different frequency and distribution exist in different styles.In chapter four, we combine the quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis, and observe the frequency, the distribution and the structure feature of the compound words that are compounded by VIMH. Then we summarize the abstraction and specialization of meaning during the process of morpheme's composing. Discussion of the general frequency, style frequency and dynamic collocation of compound words by VIMH morpheme are following.Chapter five is about the collocation of VIMH. Firstly, we study on the feature of the amount and property of following collocation of VIMH, which shows the high relativity between VIMH and noun and between directional verbs and prepositions. Secondly, we mainly discuss VIMH's collocation of verbs and objects, and put forward the different semantic-path applied in the collocation of usage of action sememes and non-action sememes of VIMH. We analyze and illuminate how to adopt the conclusion to the auto-distinguish of VIMH's sememes. Thirdly, we review the meaning tendency in the collocation of VIMH and preposition phrase from the aspect of statistics. Fourthly, we summarize the character and general rule in the usage of preposition phrase collocation highly relating to the different VIMH. Lastly, we analyze the feature of different speech environment in which VIMH occur by analyzing the expression function of VIMH structure.Chapter six is about the application research of VIMH, mainly including the application of VIMH in the field of Chinese information processing and teaching Chinese as foreign language. By VIMH reaesrch, we can offer kinds of effective help to auto-dividing and marking, machine translation, and text collating of VIMH and its correlative structure. In the field of teaching Chinese as foreign language, we emphasize particularly on the embodiment manners of the principles—practicality, hierarchy and contrast. With the statistic analysis, we put forward some opinions on how to improve the distributing of VIMH and its compound words by morpheme in the Vocabulary for HSK.The researching method of this dissertation is the combination of quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis based on the huge corpus with real text. The quantitative analysis includes the statistics of the static state and dynamic state of VIMH, while the qualitative analysis includes the difference between the different classificatory of VIMH, the difference between the action sememes and non-action sememes of VIMH and the analysis of collocation of VIMH. The depiction is the basis of quantitative analysis, while the analysis is important to the qualitative research. And we compensate the insufficiency in the statistics of corpus by the method of introspection.The innovations in this dissertation mainly embody in several aspects as follows:First, taking VIMH as researching object enriches the types of researching on modern Chinese verbs. There are certain difficulties to define the researching object from meaning, but the comprehension to meaning is very important to Chinese information processing. So to make special research on certain kind of words by the actual needs of Chinese information processing is one of the dissertation's innovations.Second, this dissertation combines the method of corpus with rules, and adequately develops their advantages. For example, the corpus can not be replaced in reflecting the function, meaning and style distribution of VIMH. Therefore, the feature of VIMH reflected in corpus must be summarized and concluded with theoretic analysis. In details, this dissertation attempts to analyze the style distribution and relative collocation in the method of application of VIMH.Third, this dissertation makes qualitative analysis on feature, inner constitutes and structure of VIMH and its compound words by the morpheme of VIMH based on the quantitative analysis and under the direction of theory of lexis and syntax. This dissertation also analyzes the abstraction of VIMH itself, in the process of VIMH acting as morpheme and dynamic collocation of VIMH, and summarizes the the high relativity object of VIMH and construes its feature and meanings of the structure by the VIMH and their highly relative object. All of these have certain innovation in theoretic research.To sum up, the meaning of this dissertation lies on making sure of the classification of VIMH, the static distribution and compound words of VIMH in dictionary and the function of VIMH's dynamic collocation in corpus. This dissertation leads to the conclusions of collocation roles and semantic abstraction of VIMH. Also, this dissertation shows elaborate material, data and proposes solutions to certain problems of VIMH's application in field of Chinese information processing.