现代汉语姿势动词词义研究 = RESEARCH ON MEANINGS OF CHINESE POSTURE WORDS.

Abstract

Sit,stand and lie are the most common postures in our daily life , and they are called 'cardinal posture words` on account of the frequency, richness of polysemy and grammaticalizations. The theis then focus on the semantic extension of zuo(sit),zhan(stand) and tang(lie), the cardinal posture words in Chinese. After re-paraphraseing the non-posture meanings of zuo(sit),zhan(stand) and tang(lie), we try to conclude the path and the regularities of their extensions. According to the analysis, this research come to the conclusion that stressed areas, orientation of the body and the relative direction of body and the ground are the most salient components to Chinse posture words, while the purpose, the manner etc are opaque ones. As to the semantic extension, the non-posture meanings of zuo(sit),zhan(stand) and tang(lie) are closely related to their respective features. This research carries on a comprehensive analysis of Chinese posture words, and use a relative new method of word description. We hope it offer referential value to the following research and is useful to dictionary editing and language teaching.