A Study Of Chinese Object Nouns

The paper bases on the common object nouns in Chinese, researching on thestructuring types, the law becoming nouns, and integration of object nouns.The function of object nouns lies in naming, whtich comes about with satifyingthe need of human’s recongizing the world accurately. Giving names to objectsreflects human beings how to know the world in the early days, and it was not randomor habitual and agreed.The object becoming nouns has a selection mechanism, which is the very factorthat helps to make an exact difference between similar things. And the objectsbecoming nouns needs the help of encyclopedic knowledge of its own. The selectionmechanism works in the process of coinage, selecting the most prominent morphemewhich can highlight the object’s feature from encyclopedic knowledge.The existence of selection mechanism not only constructs the most basic nounsform in Chinese---disyllabic, but also provides the flexilbe form to help the nounsplentiful, and the selection mechanism comes from the way of human know the world,that is based on the regular relationship between objects, which consists of adjacence,contact, and similarity. The early world represents himself before the human beings bythe basic way. This is the ground of object coinage.The process of object becoming nouns is not the simple combination of two units,but the step of integration, which needs people treat it with an integrated attitude. Theintegration mechanism not only makes the object nouns rigorous, precise and simple,but also makes the object nouns come about in bulk. It makes it possible thatunlimited objects can be expressed and affirmed by the limited nouns. The meaningfulcrum comes about with the need of integration mechanism. The object nouns notonly has its gound of selection, but also considers the word order, which is thereflections of human know the objective world in successive order.The coinage of object not only exists in Chinese mandarin universally, but is alsofound dialect, foreign language, new words making and some special words inspecialized fields generally. The object nouns are a part or a member of the wholenouns category, and the rest parts can also be enlightened from the process and law ofobject coinage. Someone can get a little knowledge from this paper.