"Night Boat" Semantic Classification System

"Night boat" is an encyclopedia that Ming Dynasty Zhang Dai compose, which is main based on sketchbook. The content of book is widely drawn and dapper, with the mixture of classical and vernacular, and is easy to understand. The paper absorbs and learns from previous research results, and makes a preliminary study of "Night boat" semantic classification system from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and semantics.The paper contains five parts. Chapter1:Introduction.We sort out and do a simple introduction about the book,such as its author, scheduling system, content, the features and the value of language, research status, significance and methods.Chapter2:"Night boat" corpus and corpus processing. Including corpus sources, cutting word practice, word tagging, corpus construction, it dose a macro description of the "Night boat" vocabulary profiles.Chapter3: "Night boat" the basic outlook of the semantic system. Through the "night boat" classification statistics of semantic system and the "Concise Dictionary of Chinese justice class" compared to, we grasp the whole "night boat" the basic outlook of the semantic system. Chapter4:"Night boat" lexical semantic system. We use the semantic field theory to divide semantic field, and focus on describing the type of semantic field, and analyze characteristics of semantic fields, finally discuss relations between the semantic field and semantic classification system.Chapter5:"Night boat" cognitive-based semantic classification system. We take category of cognitive linguistics as an entry point. First, introduce the performance of category in "Night boat". Then, analyze the categories of "Night boat". Finally, reveal that category in the semantic relations of the "Night boat" and play a role in systematicness.Chapter6: Conclusion. The paper describes the framework and conclusions, focuses on the meaning of the semantic classification system.The paper use qualitative and quantitative, analysis and synthesis, inductive and deductive methods. Through the lexical level, it is to seek the discipline of Chinese development and the systematicness of semantic classification, which is to lay a solid foundation for "Night boat" lexicology in the future.