A Study On The Mapping-correlativity Between The Adjective Meanings And The Verb Meanings Of Adjective-verb-multifunctional Words In Scientific English

Vocabulary has always been a field where many scholars put their focuses on.They study vocabulary from different perspectives and views. One of the mostpopular branch of present study on vocabulary is "word-class shift" or "word-classconversion". The majority of papers under the title of "word-class shift" or"word-class conversion" are about words which have the traits and meanings andfunctions of two or more classes. From the papers and thesis the writer has read, the"shifted word" or "conversed word" of the word mentioned in them can be found inmany dictionaries. And the word mentioned above is the objects this thesis will focuson—adjective-verb-multifunctional-word (which will be mentioned as adj-v-m-w inthe rest part of the thesis).The target words of this thesis are collected from English-Chinese TechnicalDictionary. And here three research questions are raised:1) What are the traits ofadj-v-m-ws? That is to say, what fields those words tend to belonging to?2) Are thereany connections between the adjective meanings and the verb meanings of the sameword? If there is, then what are the mapping-correlativities between the adjectivemeanings and the verb meanings and how do the correlate to each other?3) What isthe significance of the existence of these words and the purpose of using them?The research methods of this thesis are:1) Categorize the words into sevencategories according to the adjective meanings of the words, and then induce from thecategories the fields those words belong to.2) Group the words into six groups underthe seven categories; analyze each group from the perspective of image-schema andfind out the connections or links between the adjective meaning(s) and verbmeaning(s) of the same word.