Abstract
Color words, as the basic words in a language, play an important role in people’s understanding of the world. The existing studies at home and abroad focus on the comparison or usage of color words of different nationalities, but there is a lack of corpus-based research on the collocations of Chinese color words. The typical color adjectives white and black are common in languages. This article took the Chinese color words 白 bái ‘white’ and 黑 hēi ‘black’ as representatives and used a large-scale corpus to extract their collocations. It then annotated the meanings of 白 bái ‘white’ and 黑 hēi ‘black’ in the collocations, as well as the semantic categories of the collocated words one by one. It further compared and analyzed the characteristics of their collocations in the experiential domain and the abstract domain in order to probe into the distribution rules. This research helps to deepen the understanding of the characteristics of color word used in different cognitive domains.
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Wang, S., Wu, L., Gong, Q. (2022). The Collocations of Chinese Color Words. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_10
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