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Study On Restriction Of Semantic Feature Of Visual Verb "see" To Grammatical Function

Posted on:2012-01-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:A X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335973712Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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This thesis describes lexical meaning extension system of"see"by searching corpus exhaustiveness, according to lexical meaning extension, it compares lexical meaning transformation in archaic and modern Chinese and status in the semantic field of"see", and explains influence that semantic feature to grammatical function.First, this thesis researches usage of"see", observes the usage of"see", describes lexical meaning extension system of"see"by analyzing works and using the CCL.Second, this thesis observes the status of the semantic field about"see"in different period in the vision semantic field, we discover that"see"has a changeless status no matter that the visual verbs increase or decrease, this also reflects semantic feature"emphasize results obtained"of"see",and this semantic feature is more prominence than other vision words.Third, we explain semantic feature infect grammatical function in grammaticalize process of"see","see"denotes passiveness influence by semantic feature,the source is"meet",subjece passive perception derives"suffer",and then it derives"Bei".But"Bei"is source of"cover",form the word meaning development,"see"denotes passiveness is far form original meaning than"Bei".In modern Chinese, original meaning of"see"is also common,but it is different to"Bei", original meaning is vanished,on the contrary,passiveness is common,these reflect semantic feature infect grammatical function in grammaticalize process."See"denotes passiveness is vanishing in developing because primary semantic feature affects"see"so small,but"Bei"is opposite,and through observe and study,they rendered complementary state,these reflect the language's economy; the same to"Xiang"; and this is not only embodied in the word, but also other visual verbs, so semantic feature infect grammatical function in grammaticalize process.Finally, it is the epilogue.
Keywords/Search Tags:See, semantic feature, grammatical function, grammaticalize
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