| Description and explanation is the two most important focus in modern linguistics. In one hand, Linguists have try to describe the complex language phenomena and summarize the language rules. In the other hand, Linguists have try to explain the agent of the language phenomena from multiple perspective. Approaching to the two targets, this article try hard to explain the phenomena of nouns turning or turned to adjectives and adjectives turning or turned to verbs in the Chinese language. What's more is that this article tries hard to explain the phenomena above based on general cognitive ability with the background of cognitive linguistics and cognition grammar theory for support. In our point of view is that the change of nouns of turning or turned to adjectives relevant to profile,metonymy and reference point ability, and that the adjectives like turning or turned to verbs relevant to metonymy,concept materializing and fictive scanning. At the same time all the phenomena above also depend on some external agent. |
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