Lexical Study Of The Journey To The West

The Journey to the West was one of our country's ancient four major masterpieces. It is the typical vernacular literary works.The dialect color of the whole book is strong,mixed with a large number of poesy verses at the same time,have basically reflected the language characteristic in middle period of Ming Dynasty.Carry on systematic research and have important meaning to glossary history of Chinese to the glossary appearance of "The Journey to the West".There are less research results of " The Journey to the West" glossary at present,and confine to the doing in the test and clearing up of the specific word.This text is that the attempt carries on systemic research to "The Journey to the West" glossary for the first time.This text uses modern linguistics,lexicology theory.Rely mainly on describing when altogether,and adopt the metering method.Carry on systematic research to "The Journey to the West " glossary.This text divides chapter six to discuss to "The Journey to the West" glossary together:Introduction,The Journey to the West the glossary constitution,disyllabic words of "The Journey to the West" are studied,polysyllabic words of "The Journey to the West" are studied,the new justice and neologisms of "The Journey to the West" is studied,the characteristic semantic field of "The Journey to the West " is studied. We are on the basis of virtuous research results before drawing lessons from,and make every effort to break through to some extent,in order to pursue to study the contribution to some extent about modern Chinese lexicon.Chapter one has mainly introduced the value of the selected title and the research current situations of the meaning and this subject.Have defined the ranges of choosing of theory,the method and language material of studying in selected title.Discuss the systematic general picture of glossary of "The Journey to the West" in chapter two.Its glossary forms and includes the basic glossary and general glossary. Our limit type has enumerated the basic glossary of "The Journey to the West".The general glossary of "The Journey to the West" includes bearing ancient word,dialect word,Buddhism word,Taoism's word again. Chapter three we have studied disyllabic words of "The Journey to the West" Remove the proper noun,"The Journey to the West" has 10991 disyllabic words in all. 5525 nouns among them,3618 verbs,1261 adjectives,362 adverbial words,225 other parts of speech.Divide according to the structural way,281 single-morpheme words, 10710 compound words.In the compound word,10088 formulae that compound,add 478 formulae,overlap 144 formulae.Chapter four we have studied polysyllabic words of "The Journey to the West" Mainly include three sound words,four sound words,idioms and proverbs.There are 478 three sound words,the majority is noun and adjective.By the look of word-building way,it is mainly a simply formal and adding type.Four syllable words are in the majority in AABB type word which describe the morphological feature. There are 480 idioms.We have analyzed the source,structure and characteristic of "The Journey to the West" idiom.There are 224 proverbs.We have analyzed structure and semanteme of the proverb.Chapter five studies the new justice and neologisms of "The Journey to the West ".The neologisms nearly has 447,207 nouns among them,139 verbs,91 adjectives,10 other parts of speech.According to the physique of the neologisms and semanteme characteristic,we divide neologisms into three kinds.We form from semanteme and the morphological feature form two respects,analyze the mode of combination of the neologisms.The new justice of "The Journey to the West" nearly has 60 items.We participle go on example release to new developing the meaning of a word.We are trying to use the field theory of semanteme to carry on roughly description to characteristic vocabulary with magical profound strange color of "The Journey to the West" in chapter six.