A Study On The Evolution Of The Words In The Ancient Contract Documents

In our country, the use of contract documents has a long history. From the pre Qin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, contract documents was the best certificate of the economic and social relationship. Documents involved in the economic, legal, customs and other conditions provides a rich history information for us to understand the different period of economic system and legal system. In addition, the contract documents in the process of development has formed its unique style, it has unique language value, To systematic sorting and study of its language has a fundamental role for the studying of other disciplines, it can promote the research and developent of related disciplines.Contract documents is a kind of applied writing, it has unified written form. In the process of trading, the will of both sides agreed to a problem, which will show that the contract is under the condition of the two sides to achieve. At this time, it will involve some words said "Yiyuan". This paper will take this kind of words in ancient contract documents as the research object, on the basis of such words in the recording contract documents, useing the perspective of diachronic and synchronic to describ the evolvement and development of the words. And put every word contrast with the usage of traditional literature. Adopt the method of comparative analysis, summarizing the development evolution of this kind of words. In this paper, aaccording to the arrangment of the words in chronological, then compared the change of the core morpheme and morpheme formation way of the words between different periods.In this paper, there are two research purpose and value:First of all, exploe the usage characteristics, development status and its laws of fixed words in specific style; The second, provide the reference value for large dictionaries and contract documents dictionary compiling; Third, provides a wealth of information to construct perfect chinese history.