Modern Chinese Loanwords Mono Morphemization And Affixes Study

Affixes can be categorized as "root affixes" and "borrowed affixes", depending on their different origins. It is generally considered that most of the Chinese affixes are "root affixes" and they are hard to be influenced by other language. In the new era, however, the new quasi-affixes have a new category—borrowed affixes, which are quasi-affixes developed form transliterated or literalized loanwords. On the basis of predecessors' research, this article redefines the standard of "borrowed monosyllabic quasi-affixes". With the title of "Research on Evolvement of Morphemes and Affixes from Loanword Monosyllables in Modern Chinese Language", it focuses on eleven researching objects and includes "门" and "粉" into its study. This article makes use of the relevant knowledge and research result of modern Chinese lexicology and grammatical theory to describe and analyze borrowed quasi-affixes in modem Chinese language. It combines description together with interpretation and integrates synchronized cases together with diachronic cases. By analyzing the process of how loanword monosyllables become morphemes and affixes, this article explores both external and internal motivations and reasons in this process, emphasizing the function of social culture and social psychology in the formation of new words. It also studies the characteristics of the borrowed monosyllabic quasi-affixes in the process of their formation, evolvement and usage and finally indicated that the evolvement of morphemes and affixes from loanword monosyllables not only provides new monosyllabic morphemes for modern Chinese language, but also impacts, in somedegree, the word formation of modern Chinese language and its core—morphemes.