A Study Of Verbs In "Wu Yue Chun Qiu"

There are 102 verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)altogether.Among which there are 64 single syllable words and 38 compound syllable words.Among the 102 verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand,some are monosemic words and some are polysemous words.All the compound syllable verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand are monosemic words.The 64 single syllable words have 119 terms of meaning.All the 102 verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand have 157 terms of meaning in all.According to the different situations of verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in their original meanings,extended meanings and figurature senses,the 102 verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)can be divided into three types.From the perspective of semantic analysis,the verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)can also be divided into hand movement words and non hand movement words.Hand movement words include holding words,taking words,abanding words,hitting words,pulling words and some other words.Non hand movement words include trending words,attacking words,the political class of words,support class of words and some other words.From the point of view of grammatical function,the verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)can appear as predicate in simple predicate sentences.It can also appear as part of a predicate in a complex predicate.Besides,verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)can be non predicate elements of a sentence as well.WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)derives 17 verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand,124 are still in use and 27 has been vanished.Of the vanished words,59.3%are compound syllable words.That shows although the diplophonia trendency of verbs about the Chinese character-component of hand in WuYue Autumn and Spring(吴越春秋)is obvious,the structure of the polysyllable words is not very close,and the use is not stable.