Dr. Richard Xiao

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): A corpus-based study of split words in Chinese (with Anna Siewierska), £81,304, 2008 to 2009.
National Foundation of Social Science (China): A corpus-based quantitative study of translational Chinese in English-Chinese translation, CNY90,000, 2007 to 2010.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Contrasting English and Chinese (with Tony McEnery), £139,894, 2004 to 2007.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Contrasting tense and aspect in English and Chinese: A corpus-based perspective (with Tony McEnery), £49,000, 2003 to 2004.

• Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery (2010) Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese, London and New York, Routledge, 240 pages, In Press
• Richard Xiao (2010) Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 550 pages
• Dai Guangrong, Richard Xiao (2010) Corpus-based studies on explicitation in translation, The Chinese Translators Journal, 2010 (1), In Press
• Richard Xiao, Guangrong Dai (2010) In pursuit of the "third code": A study of translation universals based on the ZCTC corpus of translational Chinese, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 42 (1), 53-61, In Press
• Richard Xiao (2010) How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 15 (1), In Press
• Siewierska, Anna, Xu, Jiajin, Xiao, Richard (2010) Bang-le yi ge da mang (offered a big helping hand): A corpus study of the splittable compounds in spoken and written Chinese, Language Sciences, 32 (1)
• Richard Xiao, Lianzhen He, Ming Yue (2010) In pursuit of the "third code": Using the ZJU Corpus of Translational Chinese in Translation Studies, Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 182-214 pages (bookchapter)
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2010) What corpora can offer in language teaching and learning, Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, London and New York, Routledge, In Press (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard (2010) Corpus creation, The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, 2nd edition, CRC Press, 147-165 pages, In Press (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard (2009) Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes, World Englishes, 28 (4), 421-450
• Richard Xiao, Guangrong Dai (2009) Negation in English: A corpus-based study, Foreign Language and Literature, 2009 (4), 228-236
• Richard Xiao, Guangrong Dai (2009) In search of the third code: Translation universal research based on translated Chinese, The First National Conference on Corpus Translation Studies (China), Shanghai, Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Xiao, Richard (2009) How different is translated Chinese from native Chinese?, Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, Liverpool University
• Xiao, Richard (2009) How can corpora help in language pedagogy? (Keynote lecture), Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham Ningbo
• Xiao, Richard (2009) Theory-driven corpus research: using corpora to inform aspect theory, Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook [Volume 2], Mouton de Gruyter, 987-1007 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard, Rayson, Paul, McEnery, Tony (2009) A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core vocabulary for learners, London and New York, Routledge, 390 pages
• Xiao, Richard (2009) Review of Warp and Weft: Chinese Language and Culture by Keekok Lee, Times Higher Education, 1887 (52)
• Xiao, Richard, Yue, Ming (2009) Using corpora in Translation Studies: The state of the art, Contemporary Corpus Linguistics, London, Continuum, 237-262 pages (bookchapter)
• Siewierska, Anna, Xu, Jiajin, Xiao, Richard (2009) Verb compounds within canonical typology: Chinese separable verb compounds, Verb Typologies Revisited, University of Gent
• Xu, Jiajin, Siewierska, Anna, Xiao, Richard (2009) Corpus informed approach to Canonical Typology: With special reference to separable verb compounds in Mandarin, Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology, University of Surrey
• Richard Xiao (2009) Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies, International Academic Development, 29 (5), 3-4
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2008) Negation in Chinese: A corpus-based study, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 36 (2), 274-330
• Xiao, Richard, He, Lianzhen, Yue, Ming (2008) Proceedings of the International Symposium of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS) 2008, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University
• Xiao, Richard (2008) Well-known and influential corpora, Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook [Volume 1], Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 383-457 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard, He, Lianzhen, Yue, Ming (2008) In pursuit of the third code: Using the ZJU Corpus of Translational Chinese in Translation Studies, Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies 2008, Zhejiang University
• Siewierska, Anna, Xu, Jiajin, Xiao, Richard (2008) Splitable verb-noun compounds in spoken and written Chinese, 41st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Languages in Contrast. Grammar, Translation, University of Bologna
• Xiao, Richard (2008) Classifiers in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study, Boundaries of Classification: Definitions, Processes and Adaptability, COST Action 31, University of Kent
• Xiao, Richard (2008) Using an enhanced MDA approach in study of world Englishes, 4th International IVACS Conference, University of Limerick
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard, CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts - XML version, Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium, 2008
• Xiao, Richard, He, Lianzhen, Yue, Ming, The ZJU Corpus of Translational Chinese, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, 2008
• Xiao, Richard, Xu, Jiajin (2008) Corpora and language education, Foreign Language Education in China, 1 (2), 50-60
• Xiao, Richard, Tao, Hongyin (2007) A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English, Sociolinguistic Studies, 1 (2), 241-273
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2007) Quantifying constructions in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study, Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham University
• Xiao, Richard (2007) What can SLA learn from contrastive corpus linguistics? The case of passive constructions in Chinese learner English, Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching, 3 (2), 1-19
• Tao, Hongyin, Xiao, Richard, The UCLA Written Chinese Corpus, Lancaster, UCREL, Lancaster University, 2007
• McEnery, Tony (2007) Parallel and comparable corpora: What is happening?, Incorporating Corpora. The Linguist and the Translator, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 18-31 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard (2006) Using corpora to study classifiers in Mandarin Chinese, Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective, COST Action A31, Humboldt-Univertät
• Tao, Hongyin, Xiao, Richard (2006) A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of amplifiers in British English, American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics 2006, Northern Arizona University
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2006) Can completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2 (1), 1-21
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2006) Collocation, semantic prosody and near synonymy: a cross-linguistic perspective, Applied Linguistics, 27 (1), 103-129
• Xiao, Richard, Tao, Hongyin, The Lancaster Los Angeles Spoken Chinese Corpus, Lancaster, UCREL, Lancaster University, 2006
• Xiao, Richard (2006) Review of Xaira: an XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture, Corpora, 1 (1), 99-103
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony, Qian, Yufang (2006) Passive constructions in English and Chinese: a corpus-based contrastive study, Languages in Contrast, 6 (1), 109-149
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard, Tono, Yukio (2006) Corpus-based Language Studies: An advanced resource book, London and New York, Routledge, 412 pages
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2005) Passive constructions in English and Chinese: a corpus-based contrastive study, Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham University
• Xiao, Richard, The PDC-2000 Chinese News Text Corpus, Lancaster, UCREL, Lancaster University, 2005
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2005) Help or help to: what do corpora have to say?, English Studies, 86 (2), 161-187
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, tony (2005) Two approaches to genre analysis: three genres in modern American English, Journal of English Linguistics, 33 (1), 62-82
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2005) A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation, Korpuslinguistik deutsch: synchron - diachron - kontrastiv, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 27-50 pages (bookchapter)
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2005) Character encoding in corpus construction, Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Oxford, AHDS, 47-58 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2005) A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation, Translation and Contrastive Studies, Shanghai, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 114-157 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2005) Situation aspect: A two-level approach, Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 185-200 pages (bookchapter)
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2004) Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 303 pages
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2004) The use of corpora in the study of collocation and semantic prosody, exemplified through corpus data from English and Mandarin Chinese, BAAL Annual Conference 2004, King's College London
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2004) The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese: A corpus for monolingual and contrastive language study, Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2004, ELRA, Lisbon
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony, Baker, Paul, Hardie, Andrew (2004) Developing Asian language corpora: standards and practice, 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, Sanya, Hainan Island
• Xiao, Richard, The Babel English-Chinese Parallel Corpus, Lancaster, UCREL, Lancaster University, 2004
• Baker, Paul, Hardie, Andrew, McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard, Bontcheva, K, Cunningham, H, Gaizauskas, R, Hamza, O, Maynard, D, Tablan, V, Ursu, C, Jayaram, B, Leisher, M (2004) Corpus linguistics and South Asian languages: Corpus creation and tool development, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19 (4), 509-524
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2004) Swearing in modern British English: the case of fuck in the BNC, Language and Literature, 13 (3), 235-268
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2004) A corpus-based two-level model of situation aspect, Journal of Linguistics, 40 (2), 325-363
• Xiao, Richard (2004) Distribution of aspect markers in English and Chinese, The Development of the Compilation and Application of Parallel Corpora, Beijing, Foreign Language Education and Research Press, 108-118 pages (bookchapter)
• Wang, Kefei, Xiao, Richard, Yang, Xiaojun (2004) Corpora and bilingual corpora, The Development of the Compilation and Application of Parallel Corpora, Beijing, Foreign Language Education and Research Press, 3-16 pages (bookchapter)
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2003) "Fuck" revisited, Corpus Linguistics 2003, Lancaster University
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2003) Aspects of translation in Chinese and English: A corpus based approach to the translation of aspect, Tagungsband der Internationalen Konferenz 'Korpuslinguistik deutsch: synchron - diachron - kontrastiv, Universität Würzburg
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard, Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese, Paris, European Language Resources Association, 2003
• Xiao, Richard (2003) Use of parallel and comparable corpora in language study, English Education in China, 2003 (1)
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2003) Aspect Marking in English and Chinese: using the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese for contrastive language study, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18 (4), 361-378
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2002) Help or help to: What do corpora have to say?, Fourth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2002) A corpus-based approach to tense and aspect in English-Chinese translation, International Symposium on Contrastive and Translation Studies between Chinese and English, Shanghai, East China Normal University
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2002) A two-level approach to situation aspect, 5th Chronos Colloquium on Tense, Aspect and Modality, Groningen University
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2002) Domains, text types, aspect marking and English-Chinese translation, ICAME 2002 the Theory and Use of English Language Corpora, Götenborg
• McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard (2002) Domains, text types, aspect marking and English-Chinese translation, Languages in Contrast, 2 (2), 51-69
• Xiao, Richard, McEnery, Tony (2002) Situation aspect as a universal aspect: implications for artificial languages, Journal of Universal Language, 3 (2), 139-177
• Xiao, Richard (2001) A corpus-based study of interaction between Chinese perfective -le and situation types, Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster University
• Xiao, Richard (2000) The Leader, Shanghai, Shanghai People's Press