Statistical Analysis Of Noun In Modern Uighur

The proportion of noun in modern Uighur language is considered as the largest parts of speech, which makes up of 47.5% of the language vocabulary. The study on nouns is an important part in modern Uighur language studies. With the development of society, in recent years, the new subjects such as computer linguistics, corpus linguistics, are widely used in the field of linguistic study. For a long period of time, some researches have taken place and made great progress in their studies. However, because of the research methods and contents in Uighur language study, there still exists some problems unsolved and fields unexplored. In this article, the author analyzed internal characteristics, word-formation, frequency of nouns by applying theories and methods of computational linguistics and corpus linguistics on the basis of quantitative analysis of Uighur vocabulary and corpus 450 thousand words.This paper is composed of five chapter. Chapter one is preface, in which the status quo of the study to Uygur nouns, the significance of the study, the current trend in the noun-corpus studies, research procedures and contents are stated. In chapter two, the definition of nouns, and its grammatical Analysis, are described. In chapter three, first of all, the author listed the statistical results of nouns in modern Uighur Language are analyzed together with quantitative analysis and result from the nouns in noun-corpus. Chapter four is mainly about "Quantitative analysis on grammatical categories of nouns". In this chapter, the author analyzed grammatical categories (of nouns) and frequency of nouns from several points. The last chapter is a conclusion. On the one hand, the author concluded the achievement of the article; on the other hand, the author put forward new problem found during the corpus analysis. In the end, also he mentioned some worth studying fields in Uighur language for the future language researchers. The article also includes the index of noun-inflection, the table of noun-suffix and the productivity of noun-suffix, the table of high frequency words.