THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD “KŬ” IN MODERN CHINESE BASED ON THE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE AND QUALIA STRUCTURE THEORY
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Based on the CCL corpus, this paper extracted 10,000 corpora of the word “kŭ” and exhaustively analyzed the distribution of its meanings by comparing the definitions of “kŭ” in common Chinese dictionaries and the corresponding word “bitter” in English dictionaries. Using the theory of argument structure and physical property structure, this paper reclassifies and describes the meanings of “kŭ” as well as identifies new meanings of this word. Following the analysis, the ten meanings of the word “kŭ” were summarized and its adjectives, polysemy phenomenon and derivative relationship were explained in an attempt to realize the completeness of the meaning categorization, improve the accuracy of the meaning description, and provide some references for the lexicography and guidance for the international teaching of Chinese.
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