The Semantic Development Of "Small" And Its Combination

"Small" is of the commonly used words in modern Chinese, their meanings andusages are diverse. As "small" is an adjective, and its meaning has a virtual trend.When "small" as an adjective, it can noun classes combine with different noun wordsand have different meaning and characteristics, and the form a large "small" groupwords family. The semantic of "small" is in addition to indicate that area, number ofsomething is less than other general things, can also indicate the degree, intensity,time and so on. In addition, the "small" can also mean some certain emotion, to reflecta certain semantic orientation.From the perspective of cognitive linguistics,"small" has experienced thedevelopment of metaphor and metonymy mechanism, gradually produced newmeanings and usages. From the lexical perspective, examines the regular pattern ofthe "small" and other words when a combination of the two-way choice. Especiallythe "small" as an adjective and noun combination rules, combined with the feature ofthe noun. In addition, the combination of "small" and the predicate phrase, thesemantic grammaticalization of "small" is a noteworthy development trend.This paper mainly based the diachronic and synchronic corpora, corpus ofPeking University and history of literary works as the corpus study sources, fromsemantic, lexical, syntactic and cognitive perspective on" small" semantic dynamicdevelopment investigation. The" small" semantic dynamic development undertakescombing, summed up the" small" development path. Secondly, try to clear thedevelopment combinations of "small" and noun words. Once again, try to clear theword combinations of dynamic analysis of "small" and the predicate, and found thatthe meanings of "small" are gradually experienced a virtual process. Finally, from theimpact effects of language development of the internal and external factors of the"small", try to find out the semantics and the use of evolution explain.