A Diachronic Study Of "Hit"-related Verbs From The Southern And Northern Dynasties To Tang Dynasty

“Hit”-related verbs,as subsidiary semantic field,have become academic research heat topic in recent years.Especially from the perspective of history of Chinese language,“hit”-related verbs are investigated under the perspective of semantic field and shown their dynamic evolution in a period of history.This is a profound theoretical significance and practical value of exploration research.This essay makes efforts to establish a complete framework for “hit”-related verbs from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to Tang Dynasty,with semantic field as a starting point,based on the “hit”-related verbs data facts,connecting with semantic relation through the synchronic description and diachronic comparison,form and meaning and the combination of qualitative statistics and qualitative analysis.The essay considers the Southern and Northern Dynasties to Tang Dynasty as the time longitudinal axis and Southern and Northern fields in this period as the space horizontal axis,choosing thirteen representative literary works as reference corpus from these two periods,gathering the “hit”-related verbs semantic field in order to analyze the using frequency and specific usage in all kinds of semantic fields.This essay study “hit”-related verbs semantic field in the Southern and Northern Dynasties to Tang Dynasty starting from the dual dimension of synchronic and diachronic and the statistics of 46 “hit”-related verbs in total in this period.There are 25 monosyllabic verbs: “da” “ji” “chui” “pai” “bian” “zhang” “bang” “kao” “fu” “chi” “bo” “ou” “zhua” “pu” “chui” “fu” “ta” “qiao” “guo” “cheng” “pi” “kou” “chui” “xuan” “lei”;there are 21 disyllable verbs:“ou ji” “bian da” “kao lue” “chui chu” “chui ta” “zhua ta” “da pu” “bian ta” “chu ta” “ji da” “quan ji” “chui da” “ou dou” “bian chui” “ji fu” “kao chu” “chi ta” “kou ji” “chui kao” “da jue” “dou da”.“Hit”-related verbs from the different stages and areas,under the joint action of internal and external factors,have various using situation and always are in the process of inheritance,demise and development.There are many factors: social reasons,such as the infiltration of foreign culture,Buddhist Sanskrit incoming,speech separation trend and the influence of the nature of the corpus;internal reasons,such as the drives of words combination relations and paradigmatic,the self-regulation of the lexicals system,and so on.