A Study Of The Syntagmatic Combinations Of Human Lower Limbs Nouns In Modern Chinese

With the further study of Chinese common words, Chinese human words, as the most common words, have caught the academic field's attention. At the same time, cognitive linguistics maintains that humans'knowledge about the world is based on the way in which they understand their bodies. And due to this influence, many scholars are engaged in the multi-angle research of alleged human body parts and human organ terms. Both the research of Chinese common words and cognitive linguistics have captured the academia's attention.In order to gain deep understandings of the language nature, the comprehensive grasp of language phenomena is needed. Any language theory, without language facts, is doomed to lose the foundation for development. Therefore, this thesis, from the perspectives of modern Chinese, selects the important parts of body nouns which attract cognitive linguistics'attentions, namely, the lower limbs terms, as study targets. It fully explores the syntagmatic combinations of seven words"jiao, tui, zu, gen, xi, huai, zhi"in a closed corpus of modern Chinese, and analyzes the alleged domain of every lower limb term through the combinations. This thesis, through careful researches in the alleged domain of lower limbs nouns, aims to reflect the human lower limbs nouns and the alleged domain under thecontext of modern Chinese, and thus to lay a solid foundation for further study in related fields.