The Analysis Of New Form And New Meaning Of Nouns In Chinese Vocabulary

This dissertation is mainly to take as its subject the nouns of the Chinese new vocabulary, about which the features of semantic meaning and syntactic form are mainly concerned. In order to reveal the regular pattern of the development of the semantic meaning and syntactic form, these new nouns are studied in diachronic and synchronic way in combination with dynamic and static way in the context of linguistic cognition and linguistic system.There are mainly two parts in this dissertation. The first part is a outline introduction. In this part, the current study of the new words and new meaning and the papers on this subject are presented and analyzed. The focuses are about the definition of new words, studies from different angles on the new words and the publishing of dictionaries.The second part contains three sections: the first is the analysis of the syntactic form of the new nouns. The second is the analysis of the semantic meaning. The third is about the pragmatic mechanism of syntactic form and semantic meaning.In the first section, the syntactic form of the new words is analyzed. The author illustrates the way of producing new words and the reason of choosing this as the study objects. These new words are studied in diachronic and synchronic way respectively. In the synchronic study, new words are classified into two categories: new words in complete Chinese form and those in non-Chinese form. In the diachronic study, the author examines the change of the syntactic form after it comes into being. Based on the complete analysis of the syntactic form, the features of the Chinese new words are generalized, such as the increase of the affix-added new words and the multisyllabic words and the appearance of the non-Chinese new words. Then the syntactic form and the semantic meaning are studied together to convey the new features in the combination of form and meaning.In the second section, the influence on semantic field is examined. The semantic field of the contemporary Chinese new words changes with the production and introduction of new syntactic form and the change of the original meaning. Such changes will result in the production of new semantic field, the filling of semantic empty, or effect on semantic field of...