Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)


No. 3 , Pages 63 - 65 , 2003

A Preliminary Study on Polymer in Modern Chinese (Article written in Chinese)

CAO Wei

Abstract

Polymer in modern Chinese is a peculiar and worthy phenomenon. Mainly classified into 4-character words and super-four character words, all polymers are made up with phememes similar in meaning in coordinate way. Relatively fixed in a certain position, phememe of polymer cannot be freely changed or replaced, by other characters beyond the polymer, but alternate with other elements in the polymer.

Keywords: polymer; semantics-related phememe; generalized meaning of phememe

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