Abstract
Middle Chinese was affected by the language contact with Sanskrit to a great extent through the large-scale translation of Buddhist sutras. However the aligned corpora of Chinese and Sanskrit texts are too scanty to support the related research topics. The construction of a bilingual annotated corpus with Chinese Buddhist translation and their Sanskrit parallels is introduced, of which the main data were obtained from the existing research output of Sanskrit-Chinese comparative collation. It will be a first attempt in this field and will provide a basis for future research in tracing how the language elements with foreign origins have affected the development of Chinese language. Copyright © 2016 IEEE.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) |
| Editors | Minghui DONG, Yuen-Hsien TSENG, Yanfeng LU , Liang-Chih YU, Lung-Hao LEE, Chung-Hsien WU, Haizhou LI |
| Place of Publication | Danvers, MA |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 108-111 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781509009213 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |