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Study on Prosodic Morphology of Chinese Verbal Monosyllabic-Disyllabic Synonyms
Abstract
Chinese verbal synonyms, mainly verbal monosyllabic and disyllabic synonyms (hereafter, verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms), vary in their semantic and pragmatic performances. However, a systematic research on grammatical and prosodic rules of these verbal synonyms does not exist. Therefore, this paper is to calculate and analyze paired verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms included in The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (6th Edition) on their corresponding rules and prosodic morphology. It is revealed that 81% non-interchangeable verb pairs are relevant with morphological functions of prosody. More specifically, they are relevant with verb-object collocations, embedded monosyllables, verbal disyllables featuring in weakening concrete space and time, and different register characters of monosyllables and disyllables. All of these above factors lead to non-interchangeability of some paired verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms in language using.
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Verbal monosyllabic-disyllabic synonyms Morphological function of prosody Register character Feature of weakening concrete space-timePreview
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