The Research Of Disyllabic Or Polysyllabic Words In Jiayouji

The study of disyllabic or polysyllabic words is a significant part of Chinese history research. The conclusion from the comprehensive study about a specialized book, absolutely, is more valuable than picking up some examples randomly then comparing with each other. The use of disyllabic or polysyllabic words is very popular in Song Dynasty. Su Xun, as a bull man who is one of the leaders in the ancient literature movement in Song Dynasty, whose language imitated the style of Pre-Qin Period and inherited the remote ages of China. Definitely, his language was also influenced by the times he lived in. Jiayouji, which belongs to Su Xun, is the precious material for studying the disyllabic or polysyllabic words of Song Dynasty.There are 3346 disyllabic or polysyllabic words in Jiayouji. This paper adopted the historically comparative method to analyze the word formation and semantic features of the 3346 vocabularies from the syn-chronic and diachronic perspective as well. For syn-chronic perspective, we classified these words into the Union,Modifying, Supplementary, Governable, Expressive, Additional, Eclipsed,Superposed, Non-Superposed, Comprehensive and other modes according to ways of word formation, then describe them systematically. In addition, we deeply analyzed the semantic meaning of Jiayouji from synonymy and antonym assemblage.For diachronic perspective, we compared these 3346 words with the language features from Pre-Qin Period, Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties and Modern Chinese, etc. That we can compare and analyze these words so thoroughly and display the complex relationship hided behind the language phenomena of Jiayouji. What's more, we can conclude the character of the disyllabic or polysyllabic words in Song Dynasty then totally and clearly draw the outline of the development about Chinese history. Thus,we can acknowledge the rules of Chinese being disyllabic or polysyllabic.