Light verb variations and varieties of Mandarin Chinese: Comparable corpus driven approaches to grammatical variations

Hongzhi Xu*, Menghan Jiang, Jingxia Lin and Chu-Ren Huang

(Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China; School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818; Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong )

Keywords：Chinese light verbs; language variations; clustering; classification; corpus approach