Chinese Sensory Semantic Grammar

In recent years, the linguistics research obviously presents the trend of several subjects blending with social science and natural science. Construct linguistic theory which base on several subjects such like computational application, mathematic model and congnitive science, is the new tidal current. Under this background, the study is guided by the theory of semantic grammar(Li Baojia 2001), and deeply analyzed two modularities: lexical-syntactic meaning and Chinese sensory words.The paper mainly discussed the sementic features of Sensory verbs, the construction of semantic network doninated by the core verb"see" and the opration mechanism of Chinese Synaesthesia. Firstly, we defined the sensory words, and divided them into five semantic fields: senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We extracted 186 semantic features from 140 typical sememes and builded a subset of semantic metalanguage. Secondly, the typical visual verb "see" was regarded as the core of semantic network. We searched for sentences within the syntactic and semantic categories dominated by "see" (the basic meaning) in the corpus. Meanwhile, two inner roles, twelve outer roles and three mood categories were abstracted from them. According to the mode of {[(core word+ inner role)+outer role]+mood category}, one basic semantic pattern and 49 extended-perfect semantic patterns have been set up, and 12893 sub-patterns have deduced from theoretical possibility. Consequently, a single semantic network of the visual verbs was built up by coupling the paradigmatic syntagmatic semantic fields. Then, single semantic networks of other sensory verbs could be derived by following the prototype principle. Finally, a compositive semantic network formed by integrating the five single semantic networks.Thirdly,we analyzed the corpus of Synaesthesia sentence which includ 543 sentences and the corpus of Synaesthesia word which includ 578 words by using the method of Linguistic Statistics. The law that five semantic fields of feelings transferred to each other was revealed, meanwhile operation mechanism of Synaesthesia was also proved.We tried to study Chinese sensory words by sementic grammar, which based on several subjects crossed. In order to get more scientific and systematic results, we used several research mothods as a support. As one kind of practice of syncretizing lexical meaning and syntactic meaning, the study deepened the theory and approach of semantic grammar. It also provided reference for congnitive science and information processing.