| The Analects is one of representative pre-Qin books being handed down from ancient tiroes. It reflects primary characteristic of Chinese in ChunQiu and ZhanGuo times, and has far-reaching reflection to Chinese of modern times. It is a kind of important material which we research Chinese of ancient times and Chinese-history.This article roundly, systemically and in-depthly quantification analytically delineated nouns of the Analects through using research production of modern Chinese grammar. According with the standard of function and meaning combining, we might classify the Analects nouns into 7 species: proper noun, individual noun, mass noun, abstract noun, collective noun, infinitude noun and course noun. Every sort of noun has characteristic in common and respective characteristic, for example proper noun will not appear subject and predicate position of verdict sentence at the same time, abstract noun usually act as predicate of verdict sentence, and so on.This article quantification analytically delineated grammar composing of complex nouns in the Analects, and summed up "neatly use" noun phenomenon, and considered that noun may gain temporary meaning in given grammar structure, not part of speech had been changed. |