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The Research Of Abstract Nouns And Concurrence

Posted on:2011-08-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J F WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302992340Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Abstract noun is one part of nouns with unique syntactic and semanticcharacteristics. It is different with the other nouns, they are the people's understandingprocess of the objective world or the results which are reflected in people's mind.Syntactic and semantic characteristics of abstract nouns and the concurrencehave their own characteristics. There are some restrictions in combining with numeralwords, or modifying adverbs, and they have a unique syntactic functions and uniqueperformance syntax. This thesis'research is based on"HSK Vocabulary Level Table"of the 466 abstract nouns and identifying 49 concurrence of abstract nouns, including19 words moving to verbs, 26 words moving to adjectives, 1 word moving to adverb,1 word moving to adjective and adverb, 2 words moving to adjectives and verbs. Theyall have their own syntactic characteristics. This thesis is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is the introduction, introducing the significance of the topics,summary of abstract nouns, this paper's main problems and the theoretical foundation,research methods, and corpus sources.The second chapter talks about the syntax and semantics description ofabstract nouns. First, analyzing their syntactic characteristics (combine withquantifiers, adverbs, overlap, and syntactic function). This chapter has an abstractsyntax semantic aspect of terms (including the syntactic and semantic characteristicsof the semantics and syntactic category).The third chapter analyzes the concurrence of abstract nouns, firstly to separatethe differences of"utilize"and"concurrence"from"HSK Vocabulary Level Table"and is divided into five type: the concurrence of abstract nouns and verbs, abstractnouns and adjectives, abstract nouns and adverbs, abstract nouns with adjectives andadjectives, abstract nouns with adjectives and verbs.In chapter four, we mainly discuss issues such as abstract nouns and cognitiveexplanation with typical and atypical are members. They will have a fuzzy boundarybetween, on the future of non-categorization, they can be moved into one or two partsof speech. This is the syntactic category. In addition, the application of cognitivetheory of metaphor that is abstract nouns can be mapped as ontology vehicles(adjective, verb, adverb), while some can be mapped into two different parts of speech.Chapter five is the conclusion of the papers.
Keywords/Search Tags:Concurrence, Syntax and Semantic, Decategorization, Metaphor
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