Abstract
“
”[guò yú](excessively) is a typical adverb in modern Chinese, but in the early history of Chinese language, it was not a word but a cross layer syntactic structure. This shows that in the whole process of Chinese evolution, “
” [guò yú] as a case has experienced the evolution from non-word to word. This article firstly studies the character of “
” [guò yú] in different historical periods, depicts the word formation process of “
” [guò yú](excessively); The second, the paper discusses the motivation and the mechanism of “
” [guò yú] to be word; After the discussion the motivation and mechanism of “
” [guò yú](excessively), the paper explores the word formation of “
” [guò yú](excessively) as a comparison and as an adverb respectively. The article finally claims the comparative construction is the important syntactic soil for “
” [guò yú] to be a word, and with the procedure there emerged the semantic prosody of emotion in the pragmatic level.
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Rao, Q., Li, H., Wang, M., Zheng, Y. (2018). The Comparative Construction and the Evolution of “
” [guò yú].
In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_28
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