"Art Of War" Antonyms

As an important part of Chinese antonym, the antonyms in ancient book play as the foundation of the research. It is not only provides vital language materials, but also contributes to the structure of the theory. The great book, Sunzibingfa, written in the late years of the Spring and Autumn Period, is a masterpiece on military theories and laws of war. The antonyms in the book shares a high research value for its frequently appearance which takes 131 couples while the book only covers more than 7000 characters.Based on the Inductive Statistics of semanteme, the thesis concludes the antonyms in Sunzibingfa depicting and analyzing in a multiple aspects, summing up the characteristics and proposing some advices to probe the features and the evolvement of modern Chinese language, which hope to provide materials for the research of Chinese antonym.The thesis is composed of five chapters.Chapter One is the Introduction, which presents the material value of the Sunzibingfa the meaning of the antonyms of the ancient Chinese and the status quo in research, defining the principals and standards of the antonym that under the Identity Principle, there are 131 couples antonyms judging by the rational significance and context meaning.Chapter Two is the classifying the antonyms of Sunzibingfa and depicting the patterns of its existence. In the aspect of syntactical functions, morphological features and meaning, the verb takes the large share while the noun and adjective follow the second and third places which words on expressing the meaning on action and state domains the big part. In the logical relations, the antonyms of complementary relations, polarity relations, and reversion relations share the paper equally. There are five types of the existence of antonyms, in which the intertextuality antonym plays as the most important part. Some forms in the book are fixed into regular format or parallel productivity structure, for instance, zhijizhibi, yiAyiB, etc.According to the Inductive Statistics of Semanteme and Sememe, the theory of polysemous words, there are five types of corresponding relations, bilateral-uniterm correspondence,bilateral-multiterm correspondence, multilateral-uniterm correspondence, multilateral-terms correnpondence, and other corresponding types. For the five relations, the thesis explains the theory sources. The construction relations consists line type, beaming type, ring type, net type and tree type.Chapter Four states the characteristics and function of antonyms in Sunzibingfa In the text analysis, the antonyms in the book, in which the monosyllabic words shares a large part took the rational significance and identifying in the unbalancedness. In the aspect of Diachronism, the antonym in the book changes partly in the modern Chinese, which signifies in the pragmatics rhetoric and word-building.Chapter Five acts as the conclusion, in which concludes the main contents and arguments, explaining the research value of the thesis, and proposing the remained issues.