The Quasi Causativity of Chinese Preposition "you(by)" -- Event Structure and Logical Semantic Operations of the Chinese Character Shì Used for Emphasis -- Nominal Marker "de" in Mandarin Chinese and Its Role of Marking Presupposition -- An Analysis of the Word Formation Process for Negative Quasi-prefixes "fei" and "wu" in Modern Chinese -- A Semantic Study on Frame Constructions of Four Characters -- Angry Thunder and Vicious Frost: Remarks on the Unaccusativity of Chinese Weather Verbs -- Degree Intensification and Sentential Functions in Chengdu Chinese -- Polysemy of tuī: An Image-schema-based Approach -- A Study on the Semantic Change of the Chinese Negative Adverb Bùshèn -- The Interplay between Emojis and Linguistic Text -- Subjective Negative Structure in Chinese: A Case Study of "Da `Big' + NP (de)" Sentence with the Uncorrelated Relations -- Diachronic Evolution of the Verb "Give" -- The Memetic Transmission of Chinese yi-item Idioms -- Sequencing of Grammatical Items in Textbooks Oriented Towards International Chinese Language Education -- A Study on the Construction Features of "Pan X" -- The Grammaticalization of Mandarin Diao -- Mandarin Physical Contact Verbs: A Frame-based Constructional Approach -- Functional Diffusion and Decategorization of Bai: From a Colour Term to an Implicit Negative Adverb -- On the Behavior and Event Structure of `Eating Steamed Buns Dipped in Human Blood' -- The Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Distinctions of Sui-X: Taking the Example of suídì and suíchù -- Grammatical Development and Semantic Change of the Qià-based Lexical Cluster: From Objective Match to Subjective Evaluation -- Analysis of the Characteristics of Metaphors in News Reviews on the China-US Trade War -- A Study on the Evolution of Post-Nominal Plural Expressions in Chinese based on Tagged Corpora -- Deriving Various Affected Subjects in Bei-passives -- Affective Semantics and Regulatory Modes of the Word "KE" in Text-based Sentiment Analysis -- Accomplishment Predicates in Mandarin and Their Lexical Semantics -- A Survey on Chinese as Second Language Learners' Acquisition of the Structural Auxiliary Word "de" -- On the Adequacy of Grammatical Description: The Case of Ròujiámó -- An Analysis of the Inferential Meaning of Chinese Even-Construction for Semantic Parsing -- On the Interaction of Future and Perfective Aspect in Mandarin Chinese -- Comparison and Sense Induction of Temporal Adverbs Reng and Hai: A Corpus-Based Study -- Citation Network, Knowledge and Evaluation: The Role of Reporting Markers in Citation Content Analysis -- Multi-task Learning Neural Networks for Comparative Elements Extraction -- Who Killed Sanmao and Virginia Woolf? A Comparative Study of Writers with Suicidal Attempt Based on a Quantitative Linguistic Method -- A Study on Semantic Features of Antonymous Verbs Based on Lexical Knowledge System -- The Construction of Knowledge Base on Pre-Qin Chinese Reduplication -- Exploring Reasoning Scheme: A Dataset for SyllogismFigure Identification -- Attentive Intra-modality Fusion for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis -- Construction of a General Lexical-Semantic Knowledge Graph -- A Study of the Polysemy Distribution of Mongolian -- Generating Dialogue Responses with Latent Lexical Meaning -- The Effect of Word Frequency and Position-in-utterance in Mandarin Speech Errors: A Connectionist Model of Speech Production -- Morpheme-based Chemical Term Analysis and Recognition -- Revisiting Tibetan Word Segmentation with Neural Networks -- A Study of KIND Metaphors and Simile Annotation Using Dependency Parsing and ConceptNet -- A Research on the Generation Model and Evaluation Model of Chinese Wu-Qing couplets -- The Development of the Semantic Network of Chinese as Second Language Learners' Production: From the Perspective of Collocations -- Classifying Wu-Qing Couplets and General Couplets with Structural and Semantic Features -- The Construction of a Collocation List Based on Academic Papers of Teaching Chinese to Speakersof Other Languages -- Militarization of Newspaper Language - Diachronic Study of War Metaphor in People's Daily -- The Construction and Application of an Emotion Knowledge Base for Prose Reading Comprehension -- Diachronic Changes and Multi-dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Sentence Complexity in Contemporary Chinese Written Language -- ARSCC: An Assisted Reading System for Contemporary Chinese Based on Multi-Aspect Analysis -- BIPRE: Bi-directional Inter-Personal Relationship Extraction Task -- Building a Pediatric Medical Corpus: Word Segmentation and Named Entity Annotation -- Construction of Chinese Medicine Knowledge Base -- MDPeQA: A Pediatric Question Answering System Based on Multiple Data Sources -- Comparison of Changes between Mainland China and Taiwan -- The Collocations of Chinese Tactile Adjectives -- A Study on the Classification of Chinese Interrogatives Based on Pragmatic Functions -- A Research on the Evolution of Chinese Semantics Based on Distributed Representation -- Lexical Semantic Evolution of Polysemous Words in Ancient Chinese-Taking "zou" as an Example -- A DM-based Approach to the Lack of Monomorphemic Causative Verbs in Mandarin Chinese -- A Study of Complement Coercion in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from an Acceptability Judgment Task -- Significance and Application of Time Parameters in Intelligibility Test -- A Preliminary Study of Confusable Words in L2 Chinese Textbooks -- Speaker Commitment in Mandarin Conditional Connectives: Distributional and Experimental Evidence -- A Corpus-Based Study on the Classification and Processing Mechanism of English-Chinese One-to-Many Translation-Equivalent Word Pairs -- Cognitive Styles Underlying the Contradiction of Temporal Direction between Chinese qián/hòu and Their English Counterparts forward/back -- Exploring Chinese Lexicon Knowledge in Biliteracy Development of International Students in Hong Kong -- Semantic Classification and Cognitive Mechanism of Chinese "Body-Parts" Compounds with Semantic Exocentricity -- Mandarin Children's Acquisition of Numeral Container Classifier Phrases -- Effects of Lexical Spatial-Temporal Metaphors on Mandarin and Cantonese Speakers' Temporal Conceptualizations -- Occasion-level Classifiers vs. Event-level Classifiers in Child Mandarin -- The First Experiment .

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2020. Due to COVID-19, the conference was held virtually. The 76 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical semantics and general linguistics, AI, Big Data, and NLP, Cognitive Science and experimental studies.