Dr Richard Xiao
Richard Xiao worked in Linguistics and English Language until August 2007.
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Research Associate
Degree: BA English Language & Linguistics (Soochow), MA Linguistics & Applied Linguistics (Hohai), PhD Corpus Linguistics (Lancaster)
Associated research centres and groups: University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
Research Interests
Richard Xiao is a Research Associate in the department of Linguistics and English Language. His research interests include corpus-based language studies, tense and aspect theory, contrastive and translation studies, and Chinese linguistics. Having completed the ESRC-funded research project Contrasting Tense and Aspect in English and Chinese (RES-000-220135), he is currently working on the project Contrasting English and Chinese , which is also supported by the ESRC (RES-000-23-0553).
Richard is on the Editorial Board of the international journal Glossa. Heis a reviewer for Applied Linguistics (OUP), Literary and Linguistic Computing (OUP), Languages in Contrast (Benjamins),Corpora (EUP), Linguistics (de Gruyter), and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (de Gruyter). He has also regularly assessed research proposals for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Richard is a member of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics.
Here is a list of Richard's recent publications
1. Authored books
McEnery, A., Z. Xiao & Y. Tono (2005) Corpus-based Language Studies : An advanced resource book . London : Routledge.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2004) Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study . Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
Xiao, Z. (2000) The Leader (translation). Shanghai : Shanghai People's Press.
2. Journal articles
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (Forthcoming) 'Negation in Chinese: A corpus-based study'. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. [In press]
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2006). 'Collocation, semantic prosody and near synonymy: a cross-linguistic perspective'. Applied Linguistics 27(1): 103-129.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2006). 'Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese'. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(1): 1-21.
Xiao, Z. (2006) 'Review of Xaira: an XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture'. Corpora 1(1): 99-103.
Xiao, Z., A. McEnery and Y. Qian (2006) 'Passive constructions in English and Chinese: a corpus-based contrastive study'. Languages in Contrast 6(1): 109-149.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery. (2005) 'Two approaches to genre analysis: three genres in modern American English'. Journal of English Linguistics (33)1: 62-82.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2004) 'A corpus-based two-level model of situation aspect'. Journal of Linguistics 40(2): 325-363.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2005) 'Help or help to: what do corpora have to say?' English Studies 86(2): 161-187.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao. (2004) 'Swearing in modern British English: the case of fuck in the BNC'. Language and Literature 13(3): 235-268.
Baker, P., A. Hardie, T. McEnery, Z. Xiao, K. Bontcheva, H. Cunningham, R. Gaizauskas, O. Hamza, D. Maynard, V. Tablan, C. Ursu, B. Jayaram & M. Leisher. (2004) 'Corpus linguistics and South Asian languages: Corpus creation and tool development'. Literary and Linguistic Computing 19(4): 509-524.
Xiao, Z (2003) 'Use of parallel and comparable corpora in language study'. English Education in China 2003(1).
McEnery, A., Z. Xiao & L. Mo (2003) 'Aspect Marking in English and Chinese: using the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese for contrastive language study'. Literary and Linguistic Computing 18(4): 361-378.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2002) 'Situation aspect as a universal aspect: implications for artificial languages'. Journal of Universal Language 3(2): 139-77.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2002) 'Domains, text types, aspect marking and English-Chinese translation'. Languages in Contrast 2(2):51-69.
3. Articles in edited volumes
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2007) 'Parallel and comparable corpora: What is happening?' In M. Rogers and G. Anderman (ed.) Incorporating Corpora: The Linguist and the Translator. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Xiao, Z. (2007) 'Well-known and influential corpora'. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kyto (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [In press]
Xiao, Z. (2007) 'Theory-driven corpus research: using corpora to inform aspect theory. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kyto (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [In press]
Xiao, Z & J. Xu (2007) 'Corpora and language education'. In Applied Linguistics in China Volume 1. Beijing: Foreign Language Education and Research Press. [In press]
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery. (2005) 'A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation'. In W. Pan, H. Fu, X. Luo, M. Chase & J. Walls (eds.) Translation and Contrastive Studies . Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 114-157.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2005). 'A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation'. In J. Schwitalla and W. Wegstein (Hg.) Korpuslinguistik deutsch: synchron - diachron - kontrastiv . Niemeyer: Tübingen. 27-50.
Wang, K., Z. Xiao & X. Yang (2004) 'Corpora and bilingual corpora'. In K. Wang (ed.) The Development of the Compilation and Application of Parallel Corpora . Beijing : Foreign Language Education and Research Press. 3-16.
Xiao, Z. (2004) 'Distribution of aspect markers in English and Chinese'. In K. Wang (ed.) The Development of the Compilation and Application of Parallel Corpora . Beijing : Foreign Language Education and Research Press. 108-118.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2005) 'Character encoding in corpus construction'. In M. Wynne (ed.) Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice . Oxford : AHDS.
4. Refereed conference papers and presentations
Xiao, Z. (2006) 'Using corpora to study classifiers in Mandarin Chinese'. Invited talk given at the Working Groups Meeting of COST Action A31: Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective. Humboldt-Univertät, Berlin, 8-10 December 2006.
Tao, H. & Z. Xiao (2006) 'A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English'. Paper presented at the conference of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics (AAACL). 20-22 October 2006, Flagstaff, Arizona. Here is an expanded version of the paper.
McEnery, A., Z. Xiao (2005) 'Passive constructions in English and Chinese: a corpus-based contrastive study'. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2005 . July 14-17, 2005, Birmingham .
Xiao, Z., A. McEnery, P. Baker & A. Hardie. (2004) 'Developing Asian language corpora: standards and practice'. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources . March 25, 2004. Sanya. 1-8.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2004a). 'The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study'. In M. Lino, M. Xavier, F. Ferreire, R. Costa, R. Silva (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2004 ., May 24-30, 2004, Lisbon. 1175-1178.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2004b). 'The use of corpora in the study of collocation and semantic prosody, exemplified through corpus data from English and Mandarin Chinese'. Paper presented at BAAL Annual Conference 2004. September 9-11, 2004, King's College London.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2003a) 'Fuck revisited'. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2003 . 505-12.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2003b) 'Aspects of translation in Chinese and English: A corpus-based approach to the translation of aspect'. Paper presented at Tagungsband der Internationalen Konferenz 'Korpuslinguistik deutsch: synchron - diachron - kontrastiv'. March 20 - 23, 2003, Universität Würzburg.
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2002a) 'A two-level approach to situation aspect'. Paper presented at the 5th Chronos Colloquium on Tense, Aspect and Modality. June 18-21, 2002. Groningen .
Xiao, Z. & A. McEnery (2002b). 'A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation'. Plenary talk given at the International Symposium on Contrastive and Translation Studies between Chinese and English. August 8-11, 2002. Shanghai.
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2002a) 'Help or help to: What do corpora have to say?' Paper presented at the Fourth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. November 1 - 3, 2002, Indianapolis , Indiana .
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2002b). 'Domains, text types, aspect marking and English-Chinese translation'. Paper presented at ICAME 2002: the Theory and Use of English Language Corpora. May 22-26, 2002. Götenborg.
Xiao, Z. (2001) 'A corpus-based study of interaction between Chinese perfective - le and situation types'. In Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2001 . 625-635.
5. Electronic resources
McEnery, A. & Z. Xiao (2003). Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese . Published by the European Language Resources Association (Catalogue No. W0039) and the Oxford Text Archive (Catalogue No. 2474).
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