Studies On Serial-verb And Telescopic Compound Words In Modern Chinese

It has a long time that compound words of modern Chinese have been studied. Subject-predicate, verb-object, modifier-head, coordinate and supplementary compound words are common categories, and researches on these five categories of compound words are sufficient and comprehensive. In contrast, serial-verb and telescopic compound words are somewhat strange to us, so the attention and researches are far from enough. Taking these two types of compound words as objects of the research, connecting the accidence with syntax, using the comparative method, combining the valence theory, we review serial-verb and telescopic compound words from several aspects. Accordingly, we will deepen the knowledge of the two kinds of compound words.First, we probe into the difference between serial-verb, telescopic compound words and other kinds of compound words, the difference between serial-verb compound words and telescopic compound words. We can discriminate these two kinds of compound words between other kinds from several aspects, such as logical relations between morphemes, transitivity of morphemes, subjects and objects of the actions which are expressed by morphemes. Both serial-verb compound words and telescopic compound words have their own characteristics. The most prominent characteristic of serial-verb compound words is that the actions expressed by morphemes have precedence relationship in time, in turn, the most prominent characteristic of telescopic compound words is that we can insert noun or pronoun into their two morphemes to comprehend the words.Next, via the discussion of the relation between accidence and syntax, serial-verb compound words are compared with the serial-verb syntax, and telescopic compound words are compared with the telescopic syntax. Finally we find that there are not only some commonalities but also large differences between these two kinds of accidences and syntaxes.At last, the valence situation of serial-verb and telescopic compound words are analyzed detailedly. There are all kinds of methods applied to determine the valence, by filtrating, we adopt one method which is to determine the valence in simplest abstract sentences. Then referring to Yuan Yulin's control-deoxidize method, we calculate the valence of serial-verb and telescopic compound words in detail.