THE SEMANTIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE MODERN CHINESE WORD “HUO” BASED ON QUALIA STRUCTURE
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The qualia structure theory is centered on the semantics of nouns and provides scientific guidance for lexical interpretation. It has been shown that it has strong explanatory power in semantic generation and semantic combination of nouns. In this paper, on the basis of the existing dictionary interpretation, we use the qualia structure theory as a guide and combine it with corpus technology to redivide and redescribe the meaning items of the modern Chinese natural object class “HUO”, and to explain and interpret the derivation of each meaning item. Based on the results of this study, the conclusions are as follows: 1) The original dictionary definitions have the problem of incomplete division of meaning items and omission of meaning items. 2) Some of the dictionaries are not accurate in their descriptions and there is the problem of synonymous interpretation. 3) The interpretation of the derivation between the meaning items is not clear enough and lacks theoretical support.
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