A Study Of Loan Words In The Song Dynasty

This article is entitled “Studies on Song Loanwords”. It presents not only thebasic outlook and features of Song loanwords, but also the way Song loanwordsinfluence modern Chinese. The whole thesis comprises seven parts:The first part is an introduction which introduces the research background, thesignificance, theoretical basic and language materials sources.The second part introduces the origin of the “loanwords” and summarizes theachievements in the areas. It emphasizes the unresolved issues so far and outlines apertinent extent for Song loanwords study.The third part describes the social circumstance of Song Dynasty in severalaspects, such as politics, economy, culture and foreign communication. It reviews thehistorical background and specific environment caused Song loanwords.The fourth part presents the basic outlook of Song loanwords. It classifies theloanwords in the aspects of sources, the absorbing ways, meanings and countsquantitatively by using abundant language materials and real data.The fifth part shows the features of Song loanwords by analyzing the sources,meanings, the way of absorbing and the inner structure.The sixth part indicates Song loanwords’ impact on modern Chinese. The paperstudies the influence on modern Chinese’s vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar andway to write during the absorption of Song loanwords.The last part makes a conclusion and lists limitations. This part indicates themeaning of Song loanwords research and hope to make an effort on completingwords’ history.The innovative points of this article: First, Song loanwords Database isestablished, which classifies the loanwords from the macroscopic view and counts onmicroscopic level. Second, the article concentrates on Song Period and summarizesfeatures and laws.