Study On Modern Chinese Affix

The issue of affix has puzzled our academic world of Chinese research for years. So far we have not been able to complete either qualitative analysis, or quantitative research. Study of this issue is important, although there is inadequacy in previous work, because it is not only referred to our understanding of modern Chinese word-building, but also further impact on the understanding of the nature of Chinese. Basing previous research, the article applied varied methods such as comparative analysis, cited examples, induction and reasoning, etc, to multi-level analysis about the affix issues on multiple perspectives, aiming to understand the long-troubled affix issues, clarify the vagueness of some knowledge about the affix, and give a more reasonable explanation about the root of the affix issues. By comparing with English affix and derivation, with the effort on in-depth rethinking about typical affix, quasi-affixes and word-building of Chinese, the author believes that neither typical affix nor quasi-affixes is affix in western linguistics. There has ever-since been confusion about Chinese affix. The fundamental cause of the disagreement is the blind introduction of western affix. The issues of modern Chinese affix need to be decontructed. It requires re-constructing of word-building ways based on the coding mechanics of Chinese words. From now on, we should decisively abandon the methods that simply simulate western accidence in a wrong and unpractical way, put an emphasis on characteristics of meanings combination in Chinese word-building, and try to work out word-building rules according with Chinese itself, thus a better guide for Chinese language teaching.