The Semantic Frames and Quantitative Characteristics of Chinese Event Noun

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10.2991/assehr.k.210121.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Event noun, Semantic frame, Quantitative characteristics

Abstract

Event noun is an atypical noun, representing event instead of object. Based on the theory of frames semantics, this article aims at studying the semantic frames and quantitative characteristics of event nouns and finds that nouns in the same event domain have the same semantic frame. Generally speaking, the core frame elements of greater prominence are more likely to form event nouns. Besides, the quantitative characteristic of event noun is closely related to its semantic frame, maintaining the features of the spatiality of common noun, so that it can co-occur with noun classifiers. Furthermore, event noun boasts the temporal and bounded characteristics of social phenomena, for which it can co-occur with time classifiers and verb classifiers as well.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhong Wu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/23
TI  - The Semantic Frames and Quantitative Characteristics of Chinese Event Noun
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 186
EP  - 189
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.038
ID  - Wu2021
ER  -