Chinese vocabulary (rearranged edition)

Author: Sun Changxu
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book is guided by Marxist linguistic theory and focuses on modern Chinese lexical items as its primary research subject. It discusses some major issues and general patterns of Chinese vocabulary from both theoretical and practical perspectives, covering three aspects: "Word," "Vocabulary and Basic Vocabulary," and "Vocabulary Sound Change." The first part explores the nature, structure, meaning, and word formation of Chinese words. The first half of the second part provides a comprehensive discussion on the nature of modern Chinese vocabulary, its relationship and differences with ancient Chinese vocabulary, as well as the relative relationships among homophones, polysemes, synonyms, near-synonyms, and antonyms in the lexicon. It separately explains Chinese dialectal vocabulary, specialized vocabulary, jargon, and loanwords. The second half elaborates on the nature of basic vocabulary, modern Chinese basic vocabulary, and the accumulation, inheritance, and development of Chinese basic vocabulary. The third part discusses the sound change of Chinese word formation and the sound change of spoken language.