The Multi-Dimensional Investigation Of The Newly Added Three-syllable Words In The Sixth Edit Ion Of The Modern Chinese Dictionary

The newly added words in modern Chinese show a polysyllabic trend, and thethree-syllable words have always been in predominant position. This thesis studiesand analyzes in details the newly added three-syllable words in the six edition ofModern Chinese Dictionary based on the former researches from multi anglesincluding syntactic structure, metrical structure, semantic features, sources, methodsand motivation and etc.This article mainly makes a corresponding analysis of newly added three-syllablewords from the flowing four parts: The first part distinguishes three-syllable words,three-syllable phrases and three-syllable new words from each other, making aconclusion that the newly added three-syllable words mainly include threemorphemes and most of the rhythm patterns are in “2+1”modes. In syntacticstructure, there is the largest number of attributive structure in “modifier plus centralword”, following by the additional form structure and SVO structure; in the aspect ofinterpretation way, giving definition is predominant, followed by the type of usingwords to interpret words and the comprehensive way.The second part examines the grammatical function and characteristics ofnominal words, verb words and adjective words, which are in high proportion in thenewly added three-syllable words. Meanwhile, this part analyzes three ways of wordformation including “”1+2” modifier-head structure,“2+1”verb-object structure andthe additional structure, uncovering the cognitive reason of their existences.The third part finds that the semanteme of simple three-syllable words arecharacterized by indivisible integrity and the semantic composition of compoundthree-syllable words present a variety of ways, among which the way of semanticcombination is primary. The semanteme of three-syllable phrases most has the natureof idioms. Meanwhile, it makes cognitive analysis of the newly added three-syllablewords’ characteristics of semantic generalization and semantic distribution throughthe combination of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Category Theory.The fourth part finds that word creation source is leading by mandarin Chinesenew words and word creation way is leading by morpheme synthesis. The newlyadded three-syllable words are generated not only because of the outside promotionfrom new things and new concepts that are born with the social development, but also due to the strong word creation ability of the three-syllable words themselves.This thesis focuses on analyzing cognitively the prosodic features of the differentgrammar structure of the newly added three-syllable words, and it also makes afurther cognitive analysis and discussion of the semantic characteristics and causes ofnewly added three-syllable words through the related theories of cognitive linguistics,in order to improve the understanding and the research of newly added three-syllablewords.