Research On The Structure,semantic And Their Relationship Of The Trisyllabic Modifier-head Compounds In Modern Chinese

Based on the previous researches,this paper takes the three-syllable modifier-head compounds in the 7th edition of “Modern Chinese dictionary” as the research object and established the three-syllable modifier-head compounds database.We mainly focused on the following three aspects:internal structure,semantic structure and the relationship between them.In terms of internal structure,we made a qualitative and quantitative analysis on the structural levels,structural types and attributes of the internal components.The results show that the major structural level of the attributive modifier words is “2+1”while the adverbial modifier words’ is “1+2”.The distribution of five basic structure types in the second layer of the trisyllable modifier-head compounds and disyllabic compounds are basically the same: the modifier-head structure,the coordinate and the verb-object structure.66.5% of the modifier-head structure compounds are formed by adding an anterior / a posterior morpheme on the basis of two-syllable compounds and the latter one accounts for more.97.3% of the words are composed of nominal,verbal and adjective components which are highly consistent with disyllabic compounds.In terms of semantic,we investigated the semantic categories,semantic patterns and stylistic colors.The semantic categories of abstract things,concrete things and biological words account for 92.6%.The semantic patterns’ type and number of structure “n+n”“v+n”and “adj+n” vary and all of them have strong semantic pattern.The stylistic color of the three-syllable modifier-head compounds is not obvious.Finally,we analyzed the relationship between the internal structure and semantic structure.We found that the dominant semantic mode of the “1+2” type words in attributive modifier compounds is property + thing/object/time/space and “1” are mostly the adjective morphemes.82.7% of the “2” are formed on the basis of existing disyllabic words and most of the “1+2” type words are about people.There are twokinds of dominant semantic patterns of “2+1” type words:function +thing/object/space,content + thing/time/space and a major part of “2” are “v” and“n” respectively.The “2” which can be used as a word account for 66.1% and 70.8%.57.8% of the “1”are basic level category words.The dominant semantic pattern of“1+2” and “2+1” in adverbial modifier compounds is “mode + behavior”.