| Chinese has a long history and has a very big vocabulary, which can be seen from the existence of numerous synonyms. Two independent monosyllabic morphemes can combine into a synonymous compounding disyllable, if necessary, in the process of development of Chinese. The formation of the synonymous compounding disyllable doesn't reject the independent status of the monosyllables, which brings about the coexistence of synonymous monosyllables and synonymous compounding disyllables.Synonymous monosyllables and synonymous compounding disyllables are one of the particular and important kind in synonyms, between which the similarities and difference matter much in a couple of different aspects such as phonetic, semantic, and grammar. Research into them is beneficial to our modern Chinese related studies from multiple perspectives, which obviously can help to boost the development and further study of Chinese itself. In addition, these synonyms are the key and difficult point in the teaching of Chinese vocabulary. Especially it is also one of the nodi in TCSL. This is the practical value of the study in point.Presently, many scholars have made some researches into synonyms of this kind according their part of speech. However, there is still nobody researching into synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables. Some few articles make some kind of classification and summarizations regarding to semantic, pragmatic or one or two aspects of a certain word class, but they all lack systematic analysis and comparison. This passage, on the basis of functional linguist, and in the light of Prototypical Category theory and Markedness theory, tries to probe, synchronically, into the semantic relationship and syntactical function of synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables, and at same time tries to make clear, diachronically, the morpheme order, the requirements and modes of being a word, and the source of them. This passage researches into the 166 pair of synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables in Dictionary of 8000 Chinese Words in such approaches as the combination of synchronic and diachronic, phonetic, semantic and grammar, quantitive and qualitative. In this passage we not only describe, but also probe theoretically into the cause its generation, trying to make relevant explanations. This passage consists of four chapters.Chapter one mainly discusses the morpheme order of these 172 synonymous compounding disyllables.Chapter two mainly studies the requirements of being a word, the modes of being a word, and the historical source of synonymous compounding disyllables.Chapter three mainly analyzes the semantic relationship between these 166 pair of synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables. It probes synchronically into the semantic relationship between the two synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables, which we divide into four categories and explain respectively.Chapter four aims at making clear the functional differences between synonymous monosyllables and their synonymous compounding disyllables and tries to provide feasible explanations for the these differences.This research is based on the Corpus publicized on the internet by the Institute of Applied Linguistics Ministry of Education. all the examples are from the Corpus, except those annotated with sources. |