HOU Ruifen

Research Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is a Master's Degree Supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main research fields are Chinese grammar and lexicography.

E-mail: hourf@cass.org.cn

Representative scientific results:

1.“bie shuo(别说)” and “bie ti(别提)”, Studies of the Chinese Language, No. 2, 2009.

2.Modality Verbs “keyi(可以)”, “neng(能)”, and “hui(会)” in Modern Chinese from the Perspective of Power and Obstruction, Linguistic Research, Vol. 40, The Commercial Press, 2009.

3.The Polysemy of “bu(不)” in Compound Words, Chinese Language Learning, No. 6, 2015.

4.A Reanalysis of the Opposition and Neutralization of “bu(不)” and “mei(没)”, Studies of the Chinese Language, No. 3, 2016.

5.The Emergence and Development of Imperative Negation Meaning, Interactional Linguistics and Chinese Studies (Vol. 1), World Book Publishing Company, 2016.

6.On the Nature of Disyllabic Compounds and Their Inclusion in Dictionaries, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 17, The Commercial Press, 2016. (First author)

7.A Semantic and Usage Analysis of “meise(美色)”, Lexicographical Studies, No. 4, 2016.

8.“buliao(不料)”, “buxiang(不想)”, and “meixiangdao(没想到)”: A Comparative Study, Research and Exploration in Chinese Grammar, Vol. 18, The Commercial Press, 2016.

9.A Study of “bu+XX(不+XX)” Trisyllabic Constructions and Their Lexicographical Entry, Linguistic Sciences, No. 1, 2017.

10.Revision and Reflection on Part-of-Speech Annotation in The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, Lexicographical Studies, No. 4, 2017.

11.Further Discussion on the Meaning and Usage of “meise(美色)”, Chinese Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 2, The Commercial Press, 2017.

12.The Value of the Annual List of High-Frequency Media Words for Dictionary Compilation, Lexicographical Studies, No. 4, 2019.

13.Semantic Tendencies and Pragmatic Motivations of Adjectives with Multiple Grammatical Categories, Chinese Language Learning, No. 1, 2020. Reprinted in New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics.

14.Semantic Analysis of the Conversion Between Verbs and Adjectives, Linguistic Research, Vol. 62, November 2020, The Commercial Press.

15.Brand Naming and the Standardization of Language and Characters, Lexicographical Studies, No. 6, 2020.

16.On the Conversion from Trisyllabic to Disyllabic Words in Chinese, Applied Linguistics, No. 4, 2021. Reprinted in Linguistics (Renmin University of China Reprint Series), No. 4, 2022.

17.Normative Principles of Variant Words Based on the Usage of 338 Pairs of Variants, Lexicographical Studies, No. 6, 2022.

18.Word Sense Disambiguation of Verbs/Adjectives Based on the Semantic Features of Collocating Nouns, Lexicographical Studies, No. 6, 2023.

19.An Analysis of Disyllabic and Trisyllabic Flexible Words in Chinese, Studies of the Chinese Language, No. 6, 2023.

20.Semantic Classification and Dictionary Definition of Spatial Nouns in Chinese, Lexicographical Studies, No. 5, 2024. (First author)

21.Collocation-Based Semantic Analysis of “zhuyi(注意)” and “xiaoxin(小心)”, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, No. 22, 2024.

Scientific research projects：

1.Lexical Quantification Research Based on the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Project No. 20BYY170), National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC), approved in 2020, ongoing.

2.Part-of-Speech Annotation in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Project No. CSZX-YB-2017-01), Project funded by the National Language Commission, June 2017-June 2019.

3.Normative Functions and Characteristics of Language in Chinese Language Dictionaries (Project No. YB125-182), Project funded by the National Language Commission, September 2015 -September 2017.

4.A Corpus-Based Study on the Semantics and Discourse Functions of Responsive Components in Chinese (Project No. 13CYY061), Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund of China, June 2013- June 2016.

5.The “X le(X了)” and “X zhe(X着)” Constructions in Chinese and Their Treatment in Dictionaries, Youth Fund Project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, December 2011-December 2014.