Richard Xiao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Xiao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiao |
| SIGNATURE | XIAO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6426-7101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Grammar and Corpora
The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. The corpus approach has helped redefine what a grammar is, leading grammars away from abstract, idealized, representations of language toward an approach rooted in attested language use in the form of corpora. The confrontation with corpus data has changed what is viewed as grammatical and what a grammar should account …
Grammar and Corpora
The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. Research in grammar has probably been influenced most profoundly by the corpus‐based approach. It has helped to redefine what a grammar is. Indeed, corpora have had such a strong impact on recently published reference grammars of English that “even people who have never heard of a corpus are using the product of corpus‐…
How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese: A corpus-based study of translation universals
Corpus-based translation studies focus on translation as a product by comparing comparable corpora of translational and non-translational texts. A number of distinctive features of translational English in relation to native English have been uncovered. Nevertheless, research of this area has so far been confined largely to translational English translated from closely related European languages. If the features of translational language that hav…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand): A corpus study of the splittable compounds in spoken and written Chinese
Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
The multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach was originally developed by Biber to compare written and spoken registers in English, but it has since been applied extensively in synchronic and diachronic analysis of registers in English as well as non-Western languages. While the WordSmith-style keyword analysis represents a quick and simple means of evaluating a genre against the MDA dimensions, the keyword approach nevertheless provides a less co…
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English
Amplifiers such as ‘very’, ‘so’, ‘absolutely’ and ‘totally’ are a common type of intensifiers in the English language. While earlier studies have explored the meaning and grammar of amplifiers, as well as their connection with sociolinguistic variables, notably genre categories, few have explored extralinguistic parameters on the basis of substantive corpus data. In this article we use the British National Corpus (BNC), the largest balanced corpu…
Collocation, Semantic Prosody, and Near Synonymy: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
This paper explores the collocational behaviour and semantic prosody of near synonyms from a cross-linguistic perspective. The importance of these concepts to language learning is well recognized. Yet while collocation and semantic prosody have recently attracted much interest from researchers studying the English language, there has been little work done on collocation and semantic prosody on languages other than English. Still less work has bee…
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-d…
Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
The multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach was originally developed by Biber to compare written and spoken registers in English, but it has since been applied extensively in synchronic and diachronic analysis of registers in English as well as non-Western languages. While the WordSmith-style keyword analysis represents a quick and simple means of evaluating a genre against the MDA dimensions, the keyword approach nevertheless provides a less co…
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English
Amplifiers such as ‘very’, ‘so’, ‘absolutely’ and ‘totally’ are a common type of intensifiers in the English language. While earlier studies have explored the meaning and grammar of amplifiers, as well as their connection with sociolinguistic variables, notably genre categories, few have explored extralinguistic parameters on the basis of substantive corpus data. In this article we use the British National Corpus (BNC), the largest balanced corpu…
How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese: A corpus-based study of translation universals
Corpus-based translation studies focus on translation as a product by comparing comparable corpora of translational and non-translational texts. A number of distinctive features of translational English in relation to native English have been uncovered. Nevertheless, research of this area has so far been confined largely to translational English translated from closely related European languages. If the features of translational language that hav…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand): A corpus study of the splittable compounds in spoken and written Chinese
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-d…
Collocation, Semantic Prosody, and Near Synonymy: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
This paper explores the collocational behaviour and semantic prosody of near synonyms from a cross-linguistic perspective. The importance of these concepts to language learning is well recognized. Yet while collocation and semantic prosody have recently attracted much interest from researchers studying the English language, there has been little work done on collocation and semantic prosody on languages other than English. Still less work has bee…
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English
Amplifiers such as ‘very’, ‘so’, ‘absolutely’ and ‘totally’ are a common type of intensifiers in the English language. While earlier studies have explored the meaning and grammar of amplifiers, as well as their connection with sociolinguistic variables, notably genre categories, few have explored extralinguistic parameters on the basis of substantive corpus data. In this article we use the British National Corpus (BNC), the largest balanced corpu…
Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
The multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach was originally developed by Biber to compare written and spoken registers in English, but it has since been applied extensively in synchronic and diachronic analysis of registers in English as well as non-Western languages. While the WordSmith-style keyword analysis represents a quick and simple means of evaluating a genre against the MDA dimensions, the keyword approach nevertheless provides a less co…
How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese: A corpus-based study of translation universals
Corpus-based translation studies focus on translation as a product by comparing comparable corpora of translational and non-translational texts. A number of distinctive features of translational English in relation to native English have been uncovered. Nevertheless, research of this area has so far been confined largely to translational English translated from closely related European languages. If the features of translational language that hav…
Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand): A corpus study of the splittable compounds in spoken and written Chinese
Grammar and Corpora
The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. Research in grammar has probably been influenced most profoundly by the corpus‐based approach. It has helped to redefine what a grammar is. Indeed, corpora have had such a strong impact on recently published reference grammars of English that “even people who have never heard of a corpus are using the product of corpus‐…
Grammar and Corpora
The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. The corpus approach has helped redefine what a grammar is, leading grammars away from abstract, idealized, representations of language toward an approach rooted in attested language use in the form of corpora. The confrontation with corpus data has changed what is viewed as grammatical and what a grammar should account …
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Grammar (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works)