This two part volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2025 , held in Hohhot, China, during July 1113, 2025.

The 69 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. This conference focuses on integration of lexical semantics with empirical and computational methodologies.

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.- Alternative Investigation into Scalar Implicature in Mandarin Chinese.

.- Identifying Mirative Agents: A Semantic Analysis of Exclamative and Mirative Marker jìngrán / jrán.

.- Decoding Chinese Hearer-oriented Mirative Discourse Markers from the Perspective of Complex Expectation Structure.

.- The Semantic Structure and Interpretive Mode of Dual Counter-Expectation Markers: A Study of Chinese fn'ér, dào, and què.

.- The Modal Verb hui(//) in Fuzhou Dialect: Implicit Negation and Counterfactual Meaning.

.- An Analysis on the Diachronic Change of the Verb +jiang+ Directional Complement Construction.

.- Variation of Intervention Effects by Quantifier Word Type in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from an acceptability judgment task.

.- The Uses and Functions of Single-item Exemplification Construction X deng Y in Chinese.

.- The Systematic Distribution of Evaluative Roles in Word Formation: Linguistic Value and Its Implications for Chinese Lexical Semantics.

.- A Cognitive Semantic Perspective on the Chinese Color Term Huáng.

.- Conditionality and Subjunctivity in Chengdu Chinese.

.- From 'Tea' to 'Boiled Water': Semantic Extension of Chá in Sinitic Languages.

.- A BP Approach to the Target-Standard Mismatch in the Chinese bi-Comparative.

.- An Analysis of Mandarin ban ('half').

.- The Probability Comparison between Virtuality and RealityA Further Discussion on the Fortunate Meaning of Fortunate Adverbs.

.- Determination and Semantic Attributes of Objectivity-descriptive Feature of Psychological Adjectives.

.- A Semantic-Layer Analysis of the Approximative Numeral Ji in Mandarin Chinese.

.- A Study on the Adversative Contrast Function of qiaqia.

.- A Structural Analysis of Semantic Constraints in Secondary Predicates: the Case of Mandarin.

.- Syntax-Semantics Interface of Morphological Topic Markers in Mandarin.

.- The Qualia Structure of Architectural Nouns in Poetry.

.- The Polysemy Evolution Path of Nouns: A Corpus-Based Behavioral Profile Analysis of water and fire.

.- Chinese Postverbal Constraints: The Evolution of Prepositional Distribution and Verb Transitivity.

.- Sweet PotatoSmart? It Ain't So: Negative Derived Meanings of 'Sweet Potato' Nouns in Sinitic Languages.

.- The Formation of the Progressive Construction Posture Verb + Locative Element in Chuzhou Dialects of Wu Chinese.

.- Lexical Typology of the Spatial Dimension Adjectives 'WIDE/NARROW'.

.- The Formation Strategies of Mandarin Alphabetical Words (MAWs).

.- The Register-Prosodic Morphology Opposition in Chinese Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Verbs yong and shiyong and Their Syntactic Manifestations.

.- A Study on the Grammaticalization of the Verbal Classifier chng from the Perspective of Diachronic Construction Grammar.

.- Relationship between Information Structure and the Use of Generic Reference of Mandarin Determiner YíGè.

.- Usage-Based Behavioral Profile Analysis of Color-derived Polysemous Lexemes: The Case of the Chinese Color Word huáng 'Yellow'.

.- Differences and Similarities of Word Formation between Near-synonymous Quasi-prefixes Ya- and Zhun- and Their Influencing Factors.

.- Structural Representation and Processing Mechanism of Chinese Multi-syllabic fei-XY Words.

.- The Synchronic Usage and Decategorization Process of the Hong Kong Community Expression 'Zhai'.

.- A Diachronic Study of Synesthetic Mapping in Internal Somatosensory Adjectives in Modern Chinese.

.- A Study of the Auxiliary Word guo in the Nanchang Dialect from the Perspective of Prosodic Morphology.

.- Behavioral Profile analysis of the seven Chinese modals.