| This thesis takes all "V+X" nouns in the Modern Chinese Dictionary(6th Edition)as the research object,459 words totally,and discuss it from the version of vocabulary,semantic,cognitive and categorization.Firstly,analyse the structure and semantic analysis of "V+X" nouns.Its structural relations can be divided into six categories: associative,attributive,predicate-object,predicate-complement,verb-sequence and telescopic.The semantics of verbs are distributed in five categories: physical action;daily life;mental activity;social life;movement change.The process from morpheme to word can be divided into three stages: the combination or fusion of morpheme constitutes a verb meaning;verb meaning turn to noun through metaphor or metonymy;the development of noun meaning in actual use.Secondly,it elaborates the cognitive mechanism and the semantic path of "V+X" nouns.There are five kinds of cognitive mechanisms: spreading activation;metaphor;metonymy;schema and conceptual integration.Metonymy mechanism is the most common method,which mostly happened in the action ICM.The path of semantic construal can be divided into four categories: combination then metonymy;combination then metaphor;metaphor and metonymy;one morpheme unchanged.Finally,it explores the decategorization process of "V+X" nouns.It has experienced the transfer from verb to noun due to the influence of syntactic and semantics.There are three types of semantic change: dynamic to static;statements to allegations;access to quantitative features.The evolution of grammar includes lexical and syntactic.Lexical level is mainly reflected in the voice changes: soft voice and "r"-retroflexedwords.Syntactic level is that words enter into specific syntax slots: noun marker;subject or object;modified by "have" or "haven’t".There are three main motivations for the transfer: the lack of nouns,the activation and the Gestalt schema in action ICM,and the effect of syntactic and semantics. |
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