Questions tagged [morphology]
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Do attributive-only adjectives take 的?
Do attributive-only adjectives like 公共 or 男/女 take 的 at all when modifying a noun?
I realize that they take 的 when in '是—的' construction. But is it correct to say 公共的建築 or 男的律師. Or can one only say ...
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Is 貴 (your) a productive morpheme?
Is 貴 a productive morpheme in Mandarin, or is it only used in fixed expressions that one should just learn?
Like, can I say «貴杯» for «your cup», or is that not allowed.
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Is there a dictionary or database of Chinese morphemes and Chinese words with morphological information?
Linguistics textbooks on Chinese morphology identify the morpheme (词素/语素) and word (词) as linguistic entities. In addition, they propose a classification system for morphemes (词素/语素) as:
自由 eg. 地 牛 走
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How to analyse the word 是指?
Is there any attested etymology for this word or can anyone otherwise attempt to break down its compositional logic for me please?
On the face of it, 是指 looks structurally similar to 是说. However, the ...
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Is 泵 the only transliterated loanword with its own logogram in all of Chinese?
Phonetic transliterations of foreign words are not uncommon in Mandarin, e.g. 沙发 for "sofa", 逻辑 for "logic", etc.
Much less common are what I would call "transliterated ...
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How does Chinese support the equivalent of the various -ed and -ing structures from English?
Here are the links I'm referencing:
-ed
Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs.
He has pointed at the dog.
Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns.
point + -ed → pointed
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How do you know when you are using compound words vs. a sequence of simple words in Chinese?
I learned today that these words are made out of simple words:
Giraffe 長頸鹿：long neck deer
Hippopotamus 河馬：river horse
Many other examples exist of this sort of thing in Chinese.
My question is, how ...
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Are the words 心里, 街上, and 夜里 nouns or prepositional phrases?
Are the words 心里, 街上, and 夜里 nouns or prepositional phrases[1][2]?
- I can not tell if 心里 means 'heart', or 'in my heart'.
It is possible to have 心里 or 心 in front of a verb, giving the impression that ...
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What's the morphological breakdown of 合同？
Which of the two morphemes is the head and which is the complement? Can it be considered a VP with a verb and its result complement (namely: to join together resulting in sameness) which has become a ...
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What is the etymology of 蔬菜？
How old is the usage of 蔬菜 to mean vegetables? Did it used to be only 蔬？Or only 菜？ I can't find any other usage of 蔬 (other than things like 果蔬， where 蔬 seems to be just a stand in for 蔬菜）, whereas 菜 ...
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What does 肯 mean, in the word 肯定？
肯：
Archaic: bone on marrow ----> 中肯=essence
Agree, consent
Be willing to, be ready to
Often, tending to
Which of these meanings gives us the word 肯定？
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