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Table 3 Data selected for corpus study 1

From: Encoding motion events in Chinese and the “scalar specificity constraint”

Novel

Author

Year

Selection analyzed

Number of characters

1. 地球的紅飄帶 Diqiu de Hong Piaodai (The Earth's Red Flying Ribbon)

魏巍 Wei Wei

1988

First six chapters

34,108

2. 太陽照在桑干河上 Taiyang Zhao zai Sanganghe-shang (The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River)

丁玲 Ding Ling

1952

First twelve chapters

28,935

3. 太陽出世 Taiyang Chushi (The Sun was Born)

池莉 Chi Li

1992

Entire novel

35,433

4. 空中小姐 Kongzhong Xiaojie (Flight Attendant)

王朔 Wang Shuo

1985

Entire novel

29,185