A Study Of Monosyllabic Synonymous Verbs In Mozi

This dissertation takes the monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi as the research object,takes sun Yirang’s Mozi Jian Gu as the base,adopts the principle of "sememe identity",and uses the methods of metrology and statistics,association and reference,comparison and mutual verification,description and explanation to outline the general situation of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi,furthermore,the dissertation analyzes the monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi to provide the most basic materials for the study of the history of Chinese vocabulary.The main contents of each chapter are as follows:The first chapter is the introduction.This chapter expounds the reason and value of topic selection,determines the research object and corpus version,defines the principle of synonym definition,introduces the research methods,and summarizes the research status of synonym verbs in ancient Chinese books and Mozi language.The second chapter investigates the monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi and describes the general situation.Through the exhaustive investigation of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi,this dissertation sorts out the list of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi,which contains 161 groups of synonymous verbs,and sums up 21 groups of distinctive features from the perspectives of semantics,grammar and pragmatics.Among them,the proportion of synonyms in two words group is the highest,and that in seven words group and eight words group or above is the lowest.The proportion of two words and three words group is about 64.0%,which is the main part of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi.There are only 4 groups of eight words and above,and the "destruction" group has the largest number of members,with a total of 9 members.The third chapter is the main part of this dissertation.This dissertation selects 30 groups of synonymous verbs which can best reflect the characteristics of Mozi,and analyzes them in terms of frequency,syntactic function,combination form,word meaning and pragmatics.It is found that the core word of most synonyms is obvious,that is,one member appears much more frequently than the other members;in most synonyms,the number of members with object is more,the verb is stronger,and some words can have double objects;the object of most verbs is substantive component,and a few verbs can have predicative object;some verbs have the usage of complement,and most of them are locative complements;quite a lot of verbs can be in the non finite position in sentences,and the syntactic position is relatively flexible.Among them,the position of subject,object and attribute is the most,and the use cases of some verbs in the non finite position are even more than the use cases of predicates;some words are in the process of solidification to disyllabic words.The fourth chapter is a comparative study of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mencius.First,compare the general situation,followed by the selection of 11 groups of common synonyms in Mozi and Mencius,statistics and analysis the frequency of each group of members in the two books,the object ability,object type,word meaning focus,emotional color,core words and so on,compare the use of each word in the two books,in order to more comprehensively understand the characteristics of the monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi.It is found that most of the core words of synonyms in Mozi and Mencius are different.The ability of each word with object,the type of object and the emphasis of word meaning are slightly different in the two books.The emotional color is basically the same,and a few words are different.The fifth chapter is the conclusion.The investigation found that"Shang(尚),Gong(攻),Ju(沮),Ji(济Ⅲ),Duan(断Ⅲ)"are the more characteristic verbs in Mozi;some words only appear in the 11 chapters from"Bei Cheng Men(备城门)"to"Za Shou(杂守)",such as"Que(却),Chu(除Ⅱ),Shu(赎),Bu(捕),Zhi(执Ⅰ),Qu(取Ⅰ),Bu(逋),Bei(备),Wei(卫),Shu(戍),Han(扞),Ni(尼),Duan(断Ⅲ),Zhan(斩Ⅰ)",which may indicate the late completion of this eleven articles.The research value of this dissertation:firstly,it can clarify the general situation of monosyllabic synonymous verbs in Mozi,and help to read this book well;secondly,it can provide reference for the study of ancient Chinese synonymous verbs from one side,and make an effective attempt to understand the language features of ancient times;thirdly,it can help to determine the formation time of some chapters in Mozi.