In native speakers' lexical choices, a concept can be more readily expressed
by one expression over another grammatical one, a phenomenon known as
nativelike selection (NLS). In previous research, arbitrary chunks such as
collocations have been considered crucial for this phenomenon. However, this
study examines the possibility of analyzing the semantic motivation and
deducibility behind some NLSs by exploring the correlation between NLS and
prototypicality, specifically the onomasiological hypothesis of Grondelaers and
Geeraerts (2003, Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology. In Hubert
Cuyckens, Ren\'e Dirven & John R. Taylor (eds.), Cognitive approaches to
lexical semantics, 67-92. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton). They hypothesized that
"[a] referent is more readily named by a lexical item if it is a salient member
of the category denoted by that item". To provide a preliminary investigation
of this important but rarely explored phenomenon, a series of innovative
methods and procedures, including the use of semantic embedding and
interlingual comparisons, is designed. Specifically, potential NLSs are
efficiently discovered through an automatic exploratory analysis using topic
modeling techniques, and then confirmed by manual inspection through frame
semantics. Finally, to account for the NLS in question, cluster analysis and
behavioral profile analysis are conducted to uncover a language-specific
prototype for the Chinese verb shang 'harm', providing supporting evidence for
the correlation between NLS and prototypicality.

通过探索 NLS 与原型性之间的相关性，本研究考察了分析 NLS 背后的语义动机和推导性的可能性，并设计了一系列创新的方法和程序来解决这个重要但很少被探索的现象。