Study On The Syntagmatic Law Of Verb “Lai” And Nouns

This paper mainly discusses the combination of the verb “Lai” and nouns from semantic perspective, and with the “semantic consistency principle” that put forward by Shao Jingmin as an important theoretical basis, focus on the law of the combination of the verb “Lai” and nouns within all class.Firstly, this article based on the analysis of the first sense and the second sense in the “Modern Chinese Dictionary” of the verb “Lai”, then divide the verb “Lai” into“Lai1” with its meaning of motion and “Lai2” with its meaning of appear, and summariMe the semantic features of the verb “Lai1” and “Lai2”, in the author's opinion that “Lai1” has the semantic feature of [+movement] and [+telic], “Lai2” has the semantic feature of [+appear], [+process], [+time] and [+ telic]. Secondly, the text based on the study of predecessors and contemporaries to carries on the internal semantic classification according to the semantic character of nouns, then according to [+movement] feature and [-movement] feature, nouns could be divided into movement noun and non-movement noun, movement noun could be divided into the animate noun and the inanimate noun, non-movement noun could be divided into the typical abstract noun, the event noun and the time noun. Finally, according to corpus statistics, the author find that the combination of the verb “Lai” and nouns has certain regularity: verb “Lai1” can only be combined with movement noun(including animate noun and inanimate noun), at this point, “Lai1”and the movement noun highlight the [+movement] feature; verb “Lai2” can only be combined with non-movement noun(including typical abstract noun, event noun and time noun), at this point, “Lai2” and the non-movement noun highlight the [+appear] feature,[+process] feature, [+time] feature and [+ telic] feature. The syntagmatic law of verb“Lai” and nouns accords with the semantic consistency principle, namely, only the words with the same semantic features can they combine with each other.This paper attempts to describe the syntagmatic law of verb “Lai” and noun,based on the semantic features of words as the breakthrough point to investigate the decisive effect of semanteme in the syntactic combination, and tried to get theresearch method and analogiMe it to the other description of syntagmatic law of verb“Lai” and nouns, in the hope of contributing to the research of combination of the modern Chinese verbs and nouns.