Concerning word meaning, we are concerned with the meanings ofwords and the relations between the meanings of words. The meanings ofwords can be classified into different types such as sense and reference,the seven types of meaning and semantic field....[继续阅读]

    Besides, there is also invention/ coinage of new words from brandnames or other technological and economic activities, for example, Kodak,Coke, nylon, Band-aid, Xerox, Lycra, Simmons, granola, ipad, TikTok,Alipay, eco-civilization ....[继续阅读]

    A morpheme is an abstract concept. Because a morpheme isrepresented in both sound and written levels, a morpheme has its concreteforms in different morphological and phonological conditions. The concreteform of a morpheme is called morph. Like phones are ...[继续阅读]

    语境和语境的重要作用,早在我国的传统语文学就已经注意到了。例如,唐孔颖达《正义》说:“褒贬虽在一字,不可单书一字以见褒贬,……经之字也,一字异不得成为一义,故经必须数句以成言。”这就是说,春秋笔法虽一字见褒贬,但必...[继续阅读]

    Traditionally, a sentence is "a series of words in connectedspeech or writing, forming the grammatically complete expression of asingle thought" (Matthews, 1981). Actually, this traditional definitionof sentence is different from the definition of utteran...[继续阅读]

    The phrase structure rules have provided mechanisms explaininghow different phrases are formed and how a simple declarativesentence takes inflection as its head and NP as its specifier and VP asits complement. How about other sentence types such as interr...[继续阅读]

    重叠法:通过将语素重叠构造新词的方法。汉语中的重叠词形式多、数量大、极为常用。从重叠词的词性上,可分为名词重叠、动词重叠、形容词重叠和量词重叠。例如名词重叠表示“每个、所有”的意义(家家、户户、人人);动词重叠...[继续阅读]

    The word categocategory can refer to a class or group of things, people, etc,possessing some quality or qualities in common; it can be a division in a systemof classification. Categorization or classification is a fundamental humancognition process in kno...[继续阅读]

    "Every syntactic construction shows us two (or more) free formscombined in a phrase, which we may call the resultant phrase. Theresultant phrase may belong to a form-class other than that of anyconstituent. For instance, John ran is neither a nominative e...[继续阅读]

    There are two major types of violation of CP and its maxims. The firsttype is the total ignorance or rejection of CP and its maxims. This maytake an explicit form, such as No comment or I dont want to talk aboutit , or an implicit form, e.g. the speakers ...[继续阅读]