A Study On The Verbs In Lv Shi Chun Q/u(吕氏春秋)

Lv Shi Chun Qiu (吕氏春秋)is an important work of the late Warring Statesperiod, with its large vocabulary and colloquial language style, can roughly reflects theglossarial features of late Old Chinese and is one source of later standard documentarylanguage and numerous colloquial words, thus having a great value of research. Inspecific research, the paper not only absorbs the achievements of traditional criticalinterpretation of ancient texts, but also makes full use of the viewpoints andapproaches of modern linguistic theory, so as to combine diachronic with synchronicand static with dynamic, and to interpret some lexical phenomena on the basis ofoverall description. At the same time, the paper reflects on and explore multiplereading words, synonyms, antonyms, and some other issues in meaning study, and thepurpose is, by providing some materials for Old Chinese lexical research, to contributemore or less to the development of the history of both the Chinese language and itsglossary.The paper consists of seven chapters.Chapter One is the exordium, mainly introducing the spread of Lv Shi ChunQiu(吕氏春秋), and discussing the choice and the current research situation of thesubject and the corresponding studying methods. Besides, it also illustrates the divisionof the history of the Chinese language, the selection of linguistic corpus, and thedetermination of the expected version.Chapter Two is on the study of the verbs of Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋), in whichthe paper thoroughly takes statistics of the basic words of each category, and focuseson the analysis of nominal basic words. In the process of analysis, according to thenotional categories indicated by lexical meanings, the paper divides nominal basicwords into fifteen groups, and then analyses these different groups and Through such aresearch, it is fairly easy to notice the relationship between the different components ofbasic words, and to observe the influence of social, historical, and cultural factors onwords.Chapter Three mainly deals with the verb meaning study of Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋). Above all, three principles in the study are determined, and more profound research on the meaning of Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋) is carried out. Polysemy ofwords is first discussed, it is concluded that this phenomenon is much more commonin the late Warring States Period than in the early period, and not only was the numberof monosyllable polysemous words increased, but also there appeared polysemousmultiple reading words, which indicates that the development of multiple readingwords is clearly speeded up. Then the paper emphasizes on the evolution of theglossary of Lv Shi Chun Qiu (吕氏春秋) Here the paper first analyses the causes of theevolution from the aspects of society, human cogntion, and linguistic reality, and thendiscusses the channels of the meaning evolution, of which meaning extension typesand the consequent shifts of meaning are focused on. The above research more or lessbreaks through traditional contributions in this field.Chapter Four is intended to study the synonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋). First of all, the general research situation of Old Chinese synonyms is looked back,and a number of focuses in this field are explored, thus determining such key issues astaking glosseme as the unit of studying synonyms verbs, and synonyms verbs being thesynonymous phenomena within the same glossarial system. Next, the paper,conforming to the practice of studying the synonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋), puts forth the approaches of distinguishing Old Chinese synonyms, analyses thedistribution of the synonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋) in terms of syllables,grammar etc., and carries out classified discrimination towards those synonyms verbs.Discrimination is the keystone in this chapter, and the distinctive features of synonymsverbs which is supported by illustrations so as to guarantee the sufficiency oftruthfulness.Chapter Five tackles the study of the antonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋). The general research situation of antonyms verbs is first briefly introduced,several hot spots in this realm are also discussed, the necessity of observing thepractical usage of words in defining antonyms verbs is then made clear, and finally thecase of verbs constituting antonyms is analysed with a fairly appropriate explanation.After that, the paper proposes a few practical methods of determining Old Chineseantonyms, probes the distribution of the antonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋). in terms of syllables, grammar etc., and analyses the types of those antonyms. Atlast, the paper discusses the semantic relationship and the corresponding relationship of the antonyms verbs in Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋)., and analyses the causes leadingto the imbalance of the corresponding relationship of those antonyms verbs.Chapter Six on the combination of characteristics of the Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋) verbs were analyzed in the combination of relations of the verb to grasp the exactsemantic features of verbs. The first section analyzes the combination of characteristicsof the Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋)Verb and object, subject, adverbial, complement cancombine to form a different structure, verb-object combination is more complexanalysis of verb-object combinations from three aspects of the semantic relations, thenumber of object word order relations, and the slave Bin four examples of thecombination to grasp the exact semantic features of verbs. Then it analyzes thecharacteristics of the combination of verb and subject, adverbial, complement, andeven that the chief language verb structure. Section II of the Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋) non-verb combination of characteristics. Unite outside the verb as a verb: the verbin the subject position is no longer expressed with temporal and spatial characteristicsof movement change, but alleged that the action itself, the vast majority of the partiessubject. Verb act as the object of the alleged sexual object and statement object points,if the verb appear in the position of the body action verb object, the temporary transferrefers to the things of the action, utilizing as a noun. The verb in the Lv Shi ChunQiu(吕氏春秋)verbs as an attributive modifier nouns, nouns can be the logic of theaction expressed by the verb acts on the agent, patient, and the parties can also beexpressed by the actions that the tool. Verb to act as adverbial, its essence non-verbmodified restrictions on the verb, predicate and adverbial between a primary orsecondary role in the adhesion of the state show that when the realization of the verbact as a complement to its infancy, involves only six words, play the modality of theaction supplement, the results tend to the role.In summary, on the basis of the textual collation and interpretation by previoussages towards Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋), the paper conducts overall investigation onLv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋) verb glossary, and reveals the features of the verbglossary and the traces of their change and development. While regarding the researchon the noumenon of the glossary of Lv Shi Chun Qiu(吕氏春秋), the paper investigatesthe social background of the glossary's generation with the intent to uncover the richhistorical and cultural significance embodied in the glossary. As the foundation work to study the history of the Chinese language, the paper fills in a blank in the research ofOld Chinese special textual glossary, thus reaching a high academic level and at thesame time possessing a great academic value.