Study On Chinese Neologism From 1919 To 1949

The dissertation mainly analyzed the new words created from 1919 to 1949 quantitatively and qualitatively.The research includes the external form of the new words in this period,the origin and creation of the new words,characteristics of the new words’ morphemic meaning and the multifaceted influences by these words on the Chinese morpheme system.Chapter 1 is the exordium,mainly introduces the reasons behind the topic,current researches on neologism and the content,material origins and methods of this research.In this chapter,the author gives the definition of these new words,and a briefly introduction of the research status of them.Chapter 2 discusses the general conditions of the external form of Chinese neologism from 1919 to 1949: in the aspect of parts of speech,these words are mainly nouns and verbs;as for syllables,two-syllable words take a great part of them while three syllable-words thriving;especially makes a distinction between newly created words and words with new meanings in the aspect of new elements,finally comes to the conclusion that creation is the main methods in the process of neologism developing.Chapter 3 discusses the various origins of these new words: as for register,the origins of social dialect words is mainly consisted by cants of economy and technology fields,with politics and law,biological medicine cants as complements.This is quite different from the new words’ origins from 1949 to 1978,which is mainly political;in the absorption of borrowed words,Japanese and English are the two chief sources,especially Japanese loan forms and English transliterations;in terms of regional dialects,Northern dialect and Wu dialect are the two major contributors,these two dialect areas are the primary source in which Mandarin absorbs Chinese dialect words.In Chapter 4,we mainly discuss the primary creating methods in the creation of the new words during 1919 to 1949.These creating methods mainly inherited those ones fixed in former Chinese words developing stages,only have their own particular emphasis in terms of internal characteristics(erhua),or the proportion of the words created by various methods are different from that in other periods due to the widely use of morphemic compounding,especially analogous imitation.Chapter 5 is about the relation between the morphemic meaning and lexical meaning of these new words.In these new words,the semantic expressions of morphemes are mainly nonlinear combined.The linear combination of morphemic is direct and stable,and has always been the traditional way,but never the mainstream.Moreover,the semantic characteristics and quantities have certain relationship with word creation methods.Chapter 6 focuses on the influence of new words created from 1919 to 1949 on Chinese morphemic system,which mainly manifested on the change of word-building ability of Chinese morphemes,adding new morphemes and new meanings of morphemes to modern Chinese morpheme system.In this paper,it built a corpus of Chinese neologism from 1919 to 1949,which is the basis of this quantitative research.The author collected and sorted new words with dictionaries as basic materials,and used Ta Kung Pao 1902-1949 full text database as the corpus for words collecting.Second,the author constructed a rather complete set of neologism creation system,and concluded the word-creating methods of these neologism,thus explored the relation between morphemic meaning and word creations.Third,conducted the research quantitatively and qualitatively,probed into the neologism form 1919 to 1949 on the base of the diachronic development of the whole Chinese vocabulary history.