Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)


No. 3 , Pages 54 - 62 , 2003

On the Usage of Popular Verb Phrases of Suo (Âê) (Article written in Chinese)

ZENG Yiping

Abstract

The verb phrases of suo are very popular in Chinese in recent years. The usages of the fashionable phrases show the characteristics as following: the meaning of suo was extended and the verb has more semantic kinds of the patient elements. This paper discusses several major problems: the combining form, meaning class, etymology and the value to use.

Keywords: suo; suoding (Âê©w); the fashionable usages; the semantic combining form; semantic category

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