Title: Classical Chinese and Compound Word of Modern Chinese
Abstract: In the history of Chinese, written language is divorced from colloquialism. So it made classical Chinese influence modern Chinese through two ways: One is synchronic influence; the other is diachronic inheritance. Therefore, we must analyze seriously lexical semantic of classic Chinese in modern Chinese compound words, study the history of word and morpheme in classic written language. Only do these can we acknowledge seriously the instruction, meaning and motivation of compound word of modern Chinese.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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