Abstract
The attribute database of modern Chinese color terms can be considered a sub-project of a lexical database of modern Chinese. Due to the peculiarities of Chinese color terms, the establishment of such a database faces a number of difficulties, which in turn provide us with approaches to it. In this paper, taking the color term entries in A Dictionary of Modern Chinese as examples, the author has marked, on an experimental basis, attributes of some static members of color terms. Meanwhile, he has calculated the falling frequency of the word-formation capacity of the morphemes of relevant color terms, with an attempt to get a view, in a restricted way, of the function of Chinese semiotic system to express and record the objective world.
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