A Study of The Morpheme Meaning Variation of Word-formation Based on the New Abbreviations in Contemporary Chinese

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10.2991/meici-18.2018.136How to use a DOI?

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Abbreviations; Word morphemes; Variation

Abstract

Driven by the economy principle of language, a large number of new abbreviated words have emerged in Contemporary Chinese. With the high frequency of new abbreviations, morpheme meaning of abbreviations produce various variation phenomenon. The morpheme variations mainly increase some new morphemes and the new meaning of morpheme for the original morphemes in Chinese system. The morphemes of abbreviations have strong dependence on the corresponding original phrases, and some morpheme meanings of abbreviated words are multidimensional and temporary. This paper clarifies the morphemes meaning relations of shortened words. It has important reference value for Chinese language teaching and compilation of Chinese dictionaries.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Qi Cao
AU  - Yuanyuan Ma
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TI  - A Study of The Morpheme Meaning Variation of Word-formation Based on the New Abbreviations in Contemporary Chinese
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 8th International Conference on Management, Education and Information (MEICI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 1951-6851
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