Part I The Function of the Sentence-final Particle ba as Discourse Marker -- A Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Locative Phrase Zai+NP+Bian/ Mian/ Tou -- Lexical semantics of Mandarin Carry and Hold Verbs: A Frame-Based Constructional Analysis of ná拿and wò握 -- Ambiguity of Epistemic Hui in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: Toward a Unified Semantics -- Native Speakers' Conceptualization of Force and Motion in the Semantics of Pull Verbs of Hand Action in Mandarin Chinese -- Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese -- A Degree-based Analysis of "V+A+le2" Construction -- A Corpus-based Investigation of yǒu in Singapore Mandarin: The Case for an Existential Perfect Marker -- On Occasion-quantification and "Occasionally": the Comparison of Mandarin Frequency Adverbs jīngcháng and ǒu'ěr -- Semantic Convergence of ALL and ONLY to tɕin in Chengdu Chinese -- Part II The Semantic Change and Distribution of Adjoining Adverbs in Modern Chinese -- Referential Instructions in Mandarin Nominal System: Bare Nominal Constructions vs. Prenominal Modifications -- Eventivity and Auditory Modality: An Onto-Cognitive Account of Hearing Nouns in Mandarin Chinese -- Analysis of Objectivity-Descriptive Feature of Chinese Psychological Adjectives Based on Corpus: taking Beishang, Shangxin and Nanguo as examples -- Conceptual Metaphor in Emotion Expressions in Mandarin Chinese -- Part III Construction and Analysis of Chinese Word-formation Knowledge Base Based on Modern Chinese Dictionary -- On The Design of Concise Dictionary of Language Rehabilitation Terms -- The Construction and Annotation of a Semantically Enriched Database: The Mandarin VerbNet and its NLP applications -- A Method of Modern Chinese Irony Detection -- Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency -- A Lexical Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in An Online Car-hailing Company's Apologetic Statements --From the Perspective of Appraisal Theory -- GAIGE and REFORM: A Chinese-English Comparative Keywords Study.