Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018)

The Way to Define the Polysemic Words in a Chinese-English Dictionary An Approach Based on the Generative Lexicon

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Yan He
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Yan He
Available Online March 2018.
DOI
10.2991/iccese-18.2018.126How to use a DOI?
Keywords
lexicographic model; Generative Lexicon; lexical combination
Abstract

This paper has carried out a study of the semantic extensions of the verb ài (‘love’) in Chinese from a sub-lexical perspective within the theoretical framework of Generative Lexicon. In particular, we have proposed a sub-lexical definition of the verb ài (‘love’) for a Chinese-English dictionary as a consequence of a lexicological analysis. Our results have indicated that taking the advantage of this semantic representation model, dictionary users are able to choose semantic structure based on the type of object that ài (‘love’) combined. This definition model can help foreign language learner to understand and use the verb thoroughly and flexibly.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-495-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccese-18.2018.126How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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