The Study On Location Words Of Tang Poetry

Fruitful achievements have been made by the modern Chinese on the research forChinese words, some of which have already been deeply explored and systematized. Incomparison, the analysis on ancient Chinese location words is the weak area in the wholeancient Chinese research for it’s not discussed deeply and comprehensively. Thispiece applying the theory and the method to the study, mainly concentrates on the use oflocation words in the book Poem in Tang Poetry and gives us a detailed investigation on thepositional phrases and semantics in the means of exclusive analysis and diachronicobservation. Then the sentence patterns of the location words are further discussed on thebasis done before. In addition, the essay focuses more on "description-explanation" research.In the paper,58widely-used location words in the book are the subjects of our research,especially on the grammar functions and combination features of19typical postpositions.Also the survey and the analysis have been done on the new emerged postpositions in theTang poetry as well as the comprehensive investigations of the semantics of58postpositionsand the common use of the location words. The paper is divided into5chapters,150thousands Chinese words in it.The piece, in a way that integrates the description and the explanation, not only displaysa description for typical location words, some phrases relevant, and the definitionsclassifications and function of them, but also shows us the minute categories of the sentencepatterns of the location words in the Tang poetries, all of which are aimed at giving afull-scale portrait for the location words expressions. Besides the description, the detailedexplanations about the first use or the mature use of the noun of localities in Tang dynasty areprovided as well. Moreover the paper draws more convincing conclusions after the deepeststatistics and the diachronic exploration to make the public completely accept the descriptionand the explanation in the essay.What’s more, some achievements and methods of the cognitive linguistics are used as asource of reference in this essay to deepen the observation for the lingual phenomenon andmake efforts to integrate the ancient with the modern Chinese research.