The two-volume set LNAI 13495 and LNAI 13496, constitute the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022, held as a virtual event, during May 14-15, 2022.In total the two-volume set includes 39 full papers and 19 short papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 214 submissions.

Divergence and Convergence in Tense and Aspect Meanings of “guo” and “le”.- A Corpus-based Study on the Syllablic Form Selection of Ancient Chinese High-frequency Nouns in the Middle Ages.- On the Emergence of Positive Meaning of Xiāngdānɡ from the Structure of Xiāngdānɡ de NP.- Active and Passive Expressions of Tolerance: A Semantic Analysis of the Near-Synonyms ren3 and shou4 Based on MARVS Theory.- A Study of Nominal Verbs in Modern Chinese Based on Shannon-Wiener Index——Case Studies on “Bianhua” Words.- The Causativity of Preposition “Dui (for)”.- Construction of Grammar Collocation Library for International Chinese Language Education and Difficulty Standard.- The Study of Causal Nouns in Mandarin Chinese: From the Perspective of Syntactic Realization and Pragmatic Function.- Construction of Effective News Corpus in Commodity Futures Domain.- MSDD: A Multimodal Language Dataset for Stance Detection.- Novel Lexical Semantic Change and Interactivization.- The Phonetic Types, Mechanism, and Motivation of Syllable Contraction of "numerals + ge" in Henan dialect.- A Hybrid Account of the Expressivity in Mandarin Nominals.- The Relationship Between the Emphatic Meaning and the Adversative Meaning from the Perspective of Linguistic Typology: The Cases of Chinese Kě and Jiùshì.- Research on the Semantic Map of Multifunctional Morpheme Cong.- Aspectuality and Subjectivity of Le in Chinese Conditionals.- Research on the Phenomenon of Tone Sandhi of BB in ABB-Pattern Adjectives from the Perspective of Coercion Effects.- Extracting Concepts and Semantic Associates for Teaching Tang 300 Poems to L2 Learners.- Tracing Lexical Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics: Change and Stability.- A Study on the Recovery of Omitted Constituents in Chinese Elliptical Sentences.- Recognition of Disyllabic Intransitive Verbs and Study on Disyllabic Intransitive Verbs Taking Objects Based on Structure Retrieval.- The Introduction of Positive Position in “Vwish +VPneg” and its Pragmatic Consequences.- A Grammatical Study of Chinese Counter-Expectation Marker “Jìngrán”  —in Comparison with Korean Counter-Expectation Marker “-tani”.- Variations in Alternative Pattern of Light Verb Construction between Taiwan and Mainland Mandarin.- Responses to Questions in Mandarin Chinese.- Semantic Dependency Analysis of Special Sentence Patterns in Ancient Chinese.- A Study on the Selection Mechanism of the Chinese Loan Words of the Same Signified with Different Signifiers.- A Case Study on Scalar Ordering Relations of Chinese Adverbs.- Study of Chinese Words in Diachronic Corpus of Newspaper.- The Similarities and Differences of Thanks Responses between Native Speakers and Mandarin Teaching Materials in Taiwan.- A Study on the Positional Relationship Between Preposition-Object Structures and Predicate Components in Mozi Based on Corpus.- The First Step to Resolve the Centennial Controversy over the Adverb Dōu: Classification.- The Syntactic Features of Chinese Verbs ofSaluting.- The Semantic Roles of Chinese Verbs of Saluting.- A Study on the Context Mode of the Linking Verb “Shi” Addressing a New Branch Naming.- Taking Comparison between the Degree Adverbs in Northeast Dialect and Taiwanese Mandarin from Three Perspectives — Taking Lǎo and Chāo as Examples.- Exploring the Semantic Differences of Motion Verbs from the Perspective of Image Schema — Take the Verbs "lā", " zhuài " and "tuō" as An Example.- A Corpus-Based Study of the Usage of Chinese Core Separable Words in the Use of Language.- Mandarin Analytic Causative Constructions with Shǐ and Ràng: A Usage-based Collostructional Analysis.- Topic and Focus in the Left Periphery of Old Xiang: Syntactic Cartography and Semantic Constraints.