Research On The New Vocabulary Of Tang Dynasty According To <the Great Chinese Dictionary>

The Tang Dynasty was an important period of the development of the vocabulary, who's vocabulary was numerous and of different types. The paper discussed the words which came from <The Great Chinese Dictionary>, whose examples emerged in Tang Dynasty first. Then through the investigation, we established new words corpus in Tang Dynasty, which we took it as the researched object. We researched the words according to its syllable forms. It included seven chapters except a introduction and a conclusion.The introduction told the research significance, present situations, contents and methods. The Tang Dynasty was an important period, which inherited the ancient times and opened the modern times. The new vocabularies were huge and complicated. But the research now concentrated in micro researches. The macro researches has not appewered yet. The paper researched on the new words. We can summarize the features of the words in Tang Dynasty, which was not only an important areas of vocabulary study, but also a different attempt. In addition, we introduced the linguistic data's arrangement, identifying methods.Chapter1was about the new words which belonged to the same fields. we choose nine fields, including politics, economy, law, education, imperial examinations, cultural, ideological, technology, and society, to collect the related words, from which we can find the relationship between the vocabulary and the times.Chapter2was about the basic vocabulary in Tang Dynasty, and which was another perspective of researching vocabulary from society. We found the basic words from14aspects,then we can summarize the regular patterns of the basic vocabulary production.Chapter3was about the monosyllables in Tang Dynasty.Through analyzing the grammatical forms, pronouce and meanings of the monosyllabic word in Tang Dynasty, we summeried its features,causes,ways to produce, which included4ways. There were some cognate words, which were of two types.Chapter4was about the binding Words, overlap-syllable words and add-affix words. The first two kinds can be classified by pronunciation. The last was produced by adding affix. However, this formation was of shortcomings, not only for the affix limited, but also for its coming from other words. So there were not a lot of words with the affix.Chapter5was about the disyllabic words, which were discussed from six parts of speech. And then we analysed the semantic structures and grammatical structures. In addition, we choose400Words to discuss their pronounce structures and find that there were16forms with the tones. Nouns were the most, accounting for about6/10. Verbs was the second, accounting for about3/10, with most paratactic types. Adjectives was about1/10and the paratactic type was given priority to88%, which tied for the most by relevant. Subject-predicate type accounted for6%.In addition there were18adverbs,16conjunctions and12pronouns.Chapter6was about the three-syllables Words, four-syllables Words, five-syllables words. Although they were of many syllables, but their meaning was simple. So they belong to words.Chapter7was about idioms. The idioms consisted of three parts:general idioms, allusion idioms and buddhist idioms. The first form was accounted for81%, while the last two forms was accounted for19%. The idioms were often used as verbs. Symmetry and stability were the important features to idioms.The conclusion pointed out the meaning of the topic and summarized the general characteristics of the new words and expressions of the Tang Dynasty.