The Preliminary Study On The Historical Evolution Of "kissing" Words Since Mediaeval Times

This thesis based on Chinese historical lexicology theory and dialectology theoryconducts a historical description and combing on the members since Mediaeval Times.It spreads from two dimensions: In the aspect of longitude, guided by the dynasty, itpresents a overall perfoliate venation from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the modernand contemporary age in order to have an insight into the replacement about themembers. While in the aspect of latitude, this thesis fixes each specific period,observes and analyzes corpus, discusses the characteristics of the old and newmembers on “kiss” in detail. In the statements, it takes emphasis on depicting theconditions of the objects after “kiss”, the receiver of the action, body parts by theaction, suitable contexts and characteristics of usage. Which tries to revive a full viewon these words in a certain period.Specifically, the thesis consists of six parts wholly: Chapter one includes abstract,catalog and introduction. And the introduction covers research overview, backgroundand methods. Chapter two portrays the vicissitudes of the usage of the dominantword”wu（呜）” and its multisyllable forms and the fresh word “xin（噷）” which justwas born in song dynasty from the Eastern Han Dynasty to Song dynasty. Chapterthree expounds the decline of “wu（呜）”as well as its multisyllable forms and theemergence of “qin（亲）” and “wen（吻）”. The drop of use cases presages thedowngrading of “wu（呜）” and its multisyllable forms. And in later Ming dynasty“qin（亲）” springed up, gradually grew into a powerful word in Qing dynasty, and itscertain usage in modern Chinese had already begun to take shape. In later Qingdynasty, a promising young word “wen（吻）” appeared. Chapter four elaborates athree-way race formed by “qin（亲）”,”wen（吻）” and “qin wen（亲吻）”. They aresimilar and occupy different jobs:“qin（亲）” is often used in daily life;”wen（吻）”has many combined forms, and can express many touch of abstract things.“qinwen（亲吻）” is active, its semantic domain is wide, and it can be usually used in bothoral and written materials. Chapter five preliminarily studies the dialectal distribution of members and reaches a view of the diversity and unbalancedness of its members.And the last chapter draws conclusions via a recapitulative table and comes thecharacteristics of the development of members: their inheritance, the headwordestablish its status in each competition. The economical principle in languagedevelopment, semantic development abides by the rule that it changes fromconcretness to abstraction, semantic inspection should not only depend on dictionariesbut extensive corpus, the old and new words easily produces combined forms induring their evolution.