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The paper studies the multi-category words of verb-noun. We use six words with different parts of speech in two dictionaries to discuss the multi-category words of verb-noun. Based on the collocation between the multi-category words of verb-noun and the corresponding classifiers in a large-scale corpus, we describe the verb-noun words phenomenon considering words’ syntactic characteristics and semantic characteristics. The data shows that di4zhen4, jiu4ji4, pei2tong2, shen1qing3 can collocate with classifiers as nouns or verbs and the collocations are distinct. We could see these four as multi-category words of verb-noun because of their evident noun’s and verb’s characteristics. Feng4xian4, ji4zai3 do not have ample collocations with action measure words, neither do with static measure words, but we also consider these two as multi-category words of verb-noun.
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Liu, P., Ding, J. (2015). A Research into the Multi-category Words of Verb-Noun in Modern Chinese Based on the Quantitative Analysis of the Collocating Classifiers. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_30
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