Study Of Vernacular Vocabulary In The Story World

The period of the Republic of China was an important stage in China’s transition from a feudal society to a modern one,and a transitional period in the development of modern Chinese.At this time,there was a rich variety of language phenomena,with both old and new usage of the language.Hundreds of vernacular newspapers existed during this period,with distinctive linguistic features that have high linguistic research value.The Story World is well preserved and the text is rich in content.A large number of vernacular words can reflect the basic overview of vernacular Chinese words in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.This thesis takes The Story World as the corpus source,and studies the special vernacular vocabulary phenomenon in it.In addition to the "introduction" and "conclusion",the full text is divided into four chapters.The "Introduction" part mainly discusses the significance of the topic selection,research status and research methods.The first chapter is the study of homomorphisms in The Story World.Firstly,the word frequencies of cognate anagrams in The Story World were counted,and they were divided into three categories according to the difference between the number of AB-type and BA-type word frequencies,and the number of BA-style cognate anagrams was also counted.Next,the descriptions are developed from three perspectives: structure,lexicality and meaning,and are analyzed with specific examples.The structure is mainly "joint-joint",followed by "partial-positive",while the number of other structures is low.The majority of homographs with the same lexical identity and fewer with different lexical identities.The majority of words with identical or slightly different meanings are cognates and anagrams.Finally,the development of AB-BA-type homographs and BA-type homographs in modern Chinese was examined by comparing them with the seventh edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary.The second chapter is a study of overlapping words in The Story World.Starting from the problem of distinguishing between overlapping words and overlapping forms,the overlapping words studied in this thesis are precisely defined.The overlapping words of The Story World are categorized and depicted according to the number of syllables.The two-syllable overlapping words are lexically dominated by adjectives,in addition to a small number of adverbs and nouns.The structure of trisyllabic overlapping words is divided into two categories: ABB-type and AAB-type,and the relationship between "base" and "overlapping" is divided into three categories: base AB-type,base BA-type and no base.Four-syllable overlapping words were analyzed,mainly AABB-type overlapping words,from four perspectives: overlapping words composed of bisyllabic words,overlapping monosyllabic words composed of near or antonymic words,overlapping words in fixed form,and overlapping words in anaphora.The third chapter is a study of the variant idioms of The Story World,which are studied in terms of both form and meaning.The three types of different idioms in The Story World are "three with one difference","two with two differences" and "one with three differences",of which the former is the most numerous,accounting for 80.8%.In terms of meaning,this thesis analyzes the specific example sentences from six perspectives: synonymous element replacement,subordinate relationship element replacement,hyponymic element replacement,antonymous element replacement,relevant semantic element replacement and other semantic element replacement.Substitutions of synonymous and class-sense elements were found to be more than half of all substitution types,followed by substitutions of related and other-sense elements.After categorizing the descriptions,the characteristics of the heterogeneous idioms of The Story World are summarized.The fourth chapter is a study of the vernacular verb-object separable words of The Story World.The verb-object clitics are selected as the object of study and discussed from four aspects: word class distribution,syntactic function,extended forms and special vernacular verb-object phrases.The verbal clitics in The Story World are verbs,adjectives and adverbs,of which verbs are the most numerous,especially verbs of action.It is very common for syntactic function to act primarily as a predicative component,especially in conjunction with other components.The extended form is analyzed from three perspectives: inserted constituents after verbal morphemes,inserted constituents before nouns,and overlapping verbal morphemes.At the same time,a number of special vernacular verb-object phrases appear in The Story World,and the "verb-object(double syllable)" and "verb(double syllable)-object" types are described on the basis of the examples listed.The "Conclusion" part summarizes the previous article and points out the shortcomings of this article.