Comparison Studies Of Word-Formation Of Modern Chinese And Modern Mongolian

As a part in the studies of language, word-formation takes an important place, and this is especially true for Chinese. Compound words take a greater part of words in Chinese. Compound words share great similarity in structure with phrases and sentences which are formed from notional words. This is one characteristic of Chinese. So the studies of the formation of compound words can help us have a deeper understand of the rule of sentence structure in Chinese. Word-formation is also an important area in the studies of the morphology of the modern Mongolian language.Modern Chinese and Mongolian belong to different language families and they differ a lot with each other in their system of word-formation. The author will compare thoroughly the word-formation in these two languages so that the research can be helpful for both Chinese and Mongolian to learn each other's language and be helpful for the teaching of Chinese to Mongolian students at colleges.The Derivative is a major part of morphological word-formation in both languages. In Chinese derivative is to add any but one of prefix, suffix mid-fix to a word root; whereas in Mongolian derivative is to add a couple of suffix to the stem. The morphological word-formation in Chinese also include the method of overlapping, while in Mongolian there is only structure-overlapping. word-formation in both languages include syntactic word-formation and morphological word-formation. Compounding is a major method of syntactic word-formation. Thestructure of subject-verb,modifer-modified, verb-object, coordinative word can be found in the word-formation of both languages. The structure of tightening, can be found only in Chinese but not in Mongolian. The structure of complementary can be found in Mongolian but not in Chinese. In Chinese word root compounds with word root to malce a compound word; whereas in Mongolian root word compounds with root word to make a compound word. Compounding words take a greater part in Chinese and there is a lack of the change of word form in its strict sense, while Mongolian is rich in the change of word formation and derivative takes a greater part.The author will study the similarities and differences between the word-formation in Chinese and Mongolian by the approach of comparison. He will introduce briefly the word-formation of both languages and then he will analyze through examples the similarities and differences between the word-formation of the two languages.