Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2004, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 106-112.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2004.05.014

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An Analysis of Event Nouns in Modern Chinese

Lei HAN   

  • Received:2004-03-15 Online:2004-09-25 Published:2004-05-25

Abstract:

The event noun is a particular category in Chinese nouns. According to the statistics about syntactic distributions of prototype members in the large-scale corpus, we can see that the event category has a character of weak thingness and weak action as its cognitive cause.

Key words: event noun, large-scale corpus, prototype member

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