A Study Of Word Class Labeling Of Warfare Entries In Chinese-English Dictionaries

Word class categorization is the core issue of language studies.The lack of strict morphological changes in Chinese makes the study of word classes in Modern Chinese a tricky and knotty problem in Chinese academic circles,especially the grammatical multifunctionality/heterosemy.Word class labeling has a profound influence on the macrostructure and microstructure of dictionary compilation,especially the senses,definitions and examples in the microstructure.Although warfare entries play an important role in military,diplomacy and economy under the current situation of globalization,there are very few studies on their word classes.Therefore,this thesis will conduct an in-depth study on word class labeling of warfare entries in Chinese-English dictionaries.Under the guidance of the Two-Level Word Class Categorization Theory,this thesis is intended to make a contrastive and systematic study of word class labeling of warfare entries among New Century Chinese-English Dictionary(2nd edition)(NCCED2 for short),A Chinese-English Dictionary(3rd edition)(CED3 for short),and The Chinese-English Translation Dictionary(CETD for short),with the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and the help of corpora,tries to analyze and discuss whether there are any contradictory problems in their word class labeling,senses and examples.The results show that:(1)Most of warfare entries in the three dictionaries are labeled as single-category entries belonging to verbs,but few of them are treated as multi-category entries;(2)Based on the analysis of 197 shared entries in the three dictionaries,it is found that there are a lot of inconsistencies,not only the contradictions between dictionaries,including the confusion of word class labeling and the violation of the principle of translating by word classes,but also the contradictions within dictionaries,including the improper handling of entries with symmetrical semantic relations;(3)Word class information of warfare entries in the three dictionaries is not exhibited accurately,in which only19.29% of them are full marks,while 61.42% of them are below 80;(4)Based on the empirical study of corpora,we find that the dictionaries are far different from the status quo of Chinese,especially the proportion of multi-category entries(55.84%)is much higher than that of the three dictionaries.It is found that the contradictions and inconsistencies among Chinese-English dictionaries coexist due to the problems on theoretical aspects.However,Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries follow the Principle of Parsimony,which artificially reduces the number of heterosemous lexemes,and does not distinguish word token categorization in syntax at parole and word type categorization in lexicon at langue,and there are some deviations in the criteria and procedures of word class identification.This thesis conducts a systematic study on word class labeling of warfare entries and sorts out the problems that exist in these dictionaries.It is not only helpful to optimize their word class labeling,improve the compilation of Chinese/Chinese-foreign dictionaries,but also help to deepen and solve the problem of Chinese word classes...