A Talk on "Tongkuai" and "Tongbingkuailezhe"

Huang, Wanmei; Liu, Huali; Chen, Xing

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_6

Wanmei Huang²¹,
Huali Liu²¹ &
Xing Chen²²

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“痛快”[Tongkuai] is a common word in modern Chinese, which has three meanings:“高兴”[Gaoxing](pleased, very happy, joyful), “尽兴”[Jinxing](happily, to one’s heart’s content ) and “爽快”[Shuangkuai] (straightforward). The morpheme "Tong" comes from the adverb "Tong", while the adverb "Tong" comes from the grammaticalization of the adjective "Tong". The morpheme "Kuai" derives from the adjective "Kuai". Extended relations occur between the different meanings of the adjective "Kuai", such as "glad" and "fast". This article focuses on the grammaticalization of "Tong" and the extended relations of "Kuai". The lexicalization and grammaticalization of "Tongkuai" are also explained in the paper.

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College of Arts and Communication, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, 443002, China
Wanmei Huang & Huali Liu
School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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Applied Language Research Institute, Beijing Language and Culture University, No. 15 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, 100083, Beijing, China
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School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, No. 5, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, 100871, Beijing, China
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Huang, W., Liu, H., Chen, X. (2013). A Talk on "Tongkuai" and "Tongbingkuailezhe". In: Liu, P., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_6

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