Research on Chinese - The Specificity of Chinese Morpheme, Word, Phrase

Author: Zhou Shangzhi
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is a monograph on Chinese separable words in China and also a monograph on Chinese linguistic units. Its originality is as follows:
1. The morpheme, word, and phrase in Chinese are not formal units but functional units. The research in this book proves that there is no clear boundary between the morpheme, word, and phrase in Chinese in terms of function, but rather a continuous whole.
2. The word in Chinese is different from the word in Indo-European languages. The three-level linguistic units of Chinese—morpheme, word, and phrase—are meaning-functional units that parasitize on Chinese single characters and character groups.
3. Separable words are an indivisible unified whole in meaning and a combined entity in structure, consisting of two syllabic characters.