In this paper, we introduce a POS tagging method for Taiwan Southern Min. We use the more than 62,000 entries of the Taiwanese-Mandarin dictionary and 10 million words of Mandarin training data to tag Taiwanese. The literary written Taiwanese corpora have both Romanized script and Han-Romanization mixed script, and include prose, novels, and dramas. We follow the tagset drawn up by CKIP. We dev...

In this paper, we propose a POS tagging method using more than 60 thousand entries of Taiwanese-Mandarin translation dictionary and 10 million words of Mandarin training data to tag Taiwanese. The literary written Taiwanese corpora have both Romanization script and Han-Romanization mixed script, the genre includes prose, fiction and drama. We follow tagset drawn up by CKIP. We develop word alig...

Within Systemic Functional Linguistics, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is a meaning-making resource lying at the experiential level that extends the meaning potential through cross-stratal re-mappings between the grammar and the semantics, boiling down, in one of its manifestations to expressing something that should have been a process (verb) in terms of a thing (noun). This study is an attempt at ...

LITERARY STUDY OF THE BIBLE has traditionally centered on theme and the strategies of narrative construction. In the 1960 'sand 1970 's, however, scholars lent considerable dimension to their enterprise by focussing increasingly upon compositional techniques, including word-play, inclusio, chiasm, and the whole gamut of rhetorical, structural and generic devices available to the Israelite autho...