"Modern Chinese Dictionary" Neologism Research

Since the reform and opening up, China’s economy, society, culture flourish.and language is the product of society.Vocabulary as an unit of language is the most active and the most variable part,what to the pace of society and reflects the social phenomenon.This paper research the phenomenon of neologism and the phenomenon is that old words have new meaning, belonging to a type of new words."Modern Chinese Dictionary"as the authoritative and popular medium-sized tool having a wide range of impact.It included the words reflecting the core of the modern Chinese vocabulary. So this paper,contrasting the1978version and the2005version of "Modern Chinese Dictionary" investigate the situation of new meaning to of the Neologism.This paper contrast the1978version of "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and the2005version of "Modern Chinese Dictionary" in order to select the words which meaning of words change or increase that about1600words.Then combined with "Ci Hai" and "Ci Yuan" to further define the scope of the study.Electing1405words as the researching object totally.This paper combine quantitative and qualitative to study neologism,from morphology and sense of words.The first chapter carefully describe the distribution of part of speech.The situation that part of speech the original meanings as same as the new meanings only none,verb,adjective and adverb. Part of speech of the new meanings which different from the original meanings have eight categories or twenty items.The word both none and verb at most,totally182.The next, The words both none and adjective have73items.And then the words both verb and adjective have67items.The second chapter is about structural analysis.It can be distinguished as simple-compound words and complicated-compound words.simple-compound words include complex-compound words, complementary-compound words and overlapping-compound words. Complicated-compound words include ten types.The third chapter research the relationship of new meanings and grammatical structures.The relationship reflected though the same form with the same structure.It means that the change of grammatical structures follow the change of new meanings,which include six types.The fouth chapter research the development of new meanings from the way of the development of new meanings,the relationship between morphemes and new meanings,and the change of the color-meanings.There are three moduses to develop new meanings: extended,.metaphor and quote.The change of morphemes cause the change of new meanings,the change of grammatical structures cause the change of new meanings,the change of both morpheme and grammatical structure cause the change of new meanings what response the relationship between morphemes and new meanings. The change of the color-meanings performance in four field.They are Emotional significance became more plentiful,Stylistic significance changes,dialect significance became weaker,image significance became more prominent.The fouth chapter combine above chapters summarize the character of new meanings and conditions of the development of new meanings.New meanings have ordinary characters and special characters.Ordinary characters consist that none and verb most,grammatical structures plentiful but imbalance,color-meanings changes. Special characters consist that the same form with the different structure between original meanings and new meanings,words trend to became phrase.In addition,we probe some questions about dictionary record new meanings.There are three conditions about the development of new meanings:the same form with the same structure provide structure condition,polysemy morphemes provide semantic condition,language locale provide outside condition.