基于依存树库现代汉语“在”字计量研究

A Quantitive Study on the character: Zai in Contemporary Chinese Based on Dependency Treebank

现代汉语中的"在"字兼有介词,动词和副词三种词性。本研究从依存语法观点出发,运用计量语言学的方法分析"在"在新闻语体语料中的使用情况,通过词频计算,句法分析等手段得出以下结论:现代汉语中"在"字主要用作介词,"在"字介词短语在句中充当状语,定语和补语;较长的"在"字介词短语在使用中常被置于句首;"V+在"结构从句法角度可以被当成复合动词分析。

The character： zai in contemporary Chinese can act as a preposition,a verb,or an adverb. From the perspective of dependency grammar,the present study analyzes the usage of＂zai＂in news report corpus via a quantitative approach. By means of word frequency calculation and syntactic analysis,it is found that＂zai＂is predominantly used as a preposition in contemporary Chinese and＂zai＂prepositional phrase can function as adverbial,attributive and compliment; lengthy prepositional phrases containing＂zai＂tend to appear at the beginning of sentences; and ＂V ＋ zai＂structures can be deemed as compound verbs in our analysis.