Denominal verbs in Old Chinese

Yuan Jianhui ^[1] ; Jiang Shaoyu ^[2]
1. [1] Yantai University
  
  Yantai University
  
  China
2. [2] Peking University
  
  Peking University
  
  China
Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 201, 2018, págs. 119-132
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- It is very common to see that some nouns surface as verbs in Old Chinese. These kinds of nouns are sources of both Chinese denominal verbs and multi-category words. This article systemically analyses denominal verbs in Old Chinese. Being a quantitative study, we classify 21 classic documents1 according to two criteria: 1) depending on their syntactic distributions, their syntactic characteristics are summarized and 2) generalization of their categories according to the semantic roles of the origin nouns. In addition, this research is conducted from the perspective of language typology. By comparing denominal verbs in Old Chinese, Modern Chinese and the English language, we discover the typological sense of Old Chinese denominal verbs.