CONFERENCE PAPERS
De Pascale, Stefano, Weiwei Zhang and Kris Heylen. Scaling-up lexical variationist research in pluricentric languages with type- and token-level vector semantics. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 42). Hamburg, Germany, March 3-6, 2020.
Heylen, Kris, Weiwei Zhang. From the Cookbook of Corpus-Based Lexical Lectometry: A Taste of Chinese. The 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-10), Leeuwarden, June 26-28, 2019.
Zhang, Weiwei, Kris Heylen, and Dirk Geeraerts. Analyzing lexical variation in regional varieties of Chinese: A concept-based approach. The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 15). Nishinomiya , August 6-11, 2019.
Tian, Xiaoyu, Weiwei Zhang. Chinese causative constructions with shi, ling and rang: Using classification trees and random forests. International Corpus Linguistics Symposium (ICLS). Shanghai, Oct. 25-27, 2019.
Tian, Xiaoyu, Weiwei Zhang. Chinese Causative Constructions with shi, ling and rang: A cross-variety perspective. The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC15). Nishinomiya , August 6-11, 2019.
BOOK CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
Li, Yi, Weiwei Zhang. 2021. Through the linguistic Silk Road: What have Cognitive Sociolinguistics and Chinese linguistics brought to each other. In Kristiansen, Gitte et al. (eds.) Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
De Pascale, Stefano, Weiwei Zhang. 2021. Scoring with token-based models: a distributional-semantic replication of sociolectometric analyses in Geeraerts, Grondelaers & Speelman (1999). In Kristiansen, Gitte et al. (eds). Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tian, Xiaoyu, Weiwei Zhang and Dirk Speelman. To appear in 2022. Lectal variation in Chinese analytic causative constructions: What trees can and cannot tell us. In Dennis Tay and Molly Xie Pan (eds.), Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
OUTREACH
“How similar is the vocabulary of different language varieties?”, pitch recording on the MSCA project for “Science Figured Out” project, Leuven, March 4, 2020. The video was also released via social media on Facebook and Twitter.