Exploring and Analyzing the Contact-Induced Semantic Transferring Cases Based on a Sanskrit-Chinese Parallel Corpus

摘要

Semantic transferring is a special way of producing the new senses of words in the process of language contact. From the perspective of Sanskrit-Chinese language contact, a parallel corpus of Sanskrit and Chinese languages was established and two categories of semantic transferring cases were brought into discussion to analyze their respective motivation. Various cases were provided to illustrate the conditions, processes and results of semantic transferring, which is a cross-language phenomenon that can only be investigated by comparing two languages in detail. Semantic transferring, as a special linguistic phenomenon, can reflect the similarities and differences between the mechanisms of lexical representation across different languages to a certain extent.