A Study On Attribute Words Of Modern Chinese Dictionary (Fifth Edition)

Chinese attribute words are deviated from the traditional nouns, verbs and adjectives."Modern Chinese Dictionary (Fifth Edition)" marks this kind of words for the first time,which have been researched by scholars for years. In this paper, I will study the564attributewords charted in the "modern Chinese Dictionary (Fifth Edition)" one by one from differentangles to classify, through literature research, comparative analysis, and statistics methods,they have overall studied the word pronunciation, grammar structure, the origin and futuredevelopment of the attributive words. The subject of this thesis consists of four parts:The first part mainly to classify the attribute words marked by " modern ChineseDictionary (Fifth Edition)" from angles of the speech, structure and function, especially fromangles of the group and the no group, and list examples of the letters used as the attributewords, and investigate the grammatical features of the attribute words, including the generalgrammatical features of the attribute words which were widely known by all of us, moreover,the special grammatical features of the attribute words which used as adverbial modifier,complements and modified by "Hen”.The second part is mainly to investigate the production and source of the attribute words,except several original attribute words, they mainly originates from word transformation,clipped words, new words, new meanings, a small part come from the archaic, spoken Englishand other languages.The third part divided the attribute words mainly from the angle of function, classifyingfrom the groups, pairs and no groups and discussing the reason of that, finally summarizingthe unique grammatical features. This part is the innovative focus of this paper.The fourth part mainly studies the changes over thirty years and forecasts of the attributewords, by comparing the attributes in " modern Chinese Dictionary (Fifth Edition)" with "thenon-predicate adjectives" composed by Lv Shuxiang, Rao Changrong, we can concluded thatattribute words change quickly and they are also very unstable, so we can only predict itsimply. On the basis of previous studies, this paper have made a comprehensive study onattribute words which aimed at the" modern Chinese Dictionary (Fifth Edition)", especiallyputting forward the special usage and the group and no group of the attribute words,expanding our horizons the attribute words.