A Synchronic Research On The Lexicalization Of “Zou X”

In modern Chinese, there are three kinds of state about "zou X" when "zou" and "X" are in sequence. Sometimes they can be the state of word, sometimes they can be the state of phrase, Sometimes they are both at the cross layer. The three kinds of state are the same in form, but very different on meaning and usage on modern Chinese synchronic state. After analyzing the corpus, we finally established "zou xiang", "zou shi", "zou guang" and "zou ren" as our investigation objects. We will discuss their status of lexicalization from the perspective of synchronic, and distinguish them as word and phrase according to semantics and syntax. We can have a better understanding of this kind of words. This dissertation is divided into seven chapters:Chapter 1 is the introduction. It is mainly about the background of the research, the orientation of the content, the research theory’s basis and method.Chapter 2 is about the research object. First we analyze the characteristics of “zou”,then we concluded that double syllable “zou X” are the most in corpus through analyzing the types and frequency of the "X". According to this and further analysis,we finally decided that the research object of this dissertation are "zou xiang", "zou shi", "zou guang" and "zou ren".Chapter 3 to chapter 6 is the researching on each case. Through the retrieval of corpus, we found that "zou xiang", "zou shi", "zou guang" and "zou ren" can be three kinds of state which are word, phrase and the cross layer. Then, according to the different conditions they show, we can draw a conclusion about the rules from the angles of semantics and syntax.Chapter 7 is the conclusion. By summarizing the whole content, we try to draw a general rule about different status of “zou X”. Also, we point out the innovation and unsolved problems.