A Study On The Compound Word Of Xizhou Bronze Utensil Epigraph

The subject of this article was the compound word of Xizhou (西周) Bronze Utensil Epigraph.The research of acient Chinese vocabulary is an important part in Chinese vocabulary research system. Because acient Chinese vocabulary is the beginning of modern vocabulary. Although each of them has different traits, they also have same rules. The same between them reflects the spread and inherit, while the difference reflects the development. Just because of this, acient and modern Chinese vocabulary is an undivided whole. But we should pay attention to : acient Chinese vocabulary were single words while modern vocabulary mainly are compound words. This is a large difference. Then, which period was the real beginning of compound words? We can say it was JiaguWen (甲骨文) period. Because the quatity of compound words which occurred in Shang Dynasty (商朝) was not largeand it got more and more since Xizhou (西周) . The method of creating words also changed from single word to compound words. So we want to know the change by the research to Xizhou (西周) Bronze Utensil Epigraph.It was one of the reason to choose the topic.Second, vocabulary system and method to create worc in Shangzhou (商周) were seldom studied before. Only there were several people carried out first research to some representative works.Third, there were many researches about Bronze Utensil Epigraph from word-explaination and grammar, but the research from the vocabulary was seldom. From the research method to see, absorbing foreign linguistic especially the theory knowledge and combining the achievement of traditional research with the modern semantics maybe can give the historical vocabulary same new improvements. So, the process of studying Xizhou (西周) Bronze Utensil Epigraph can also give some reference to the figures and rules of language development in new period. Thus, it can improve the deep development of pre-acient, mid-acient and whole Chinese...