Research on the Inverse Morphemes Word Pairs in Huang Kan's Interpretations of the Collected Notes on the Analects of Confucius

摘要

In lluang Kan's The Interpretations of the Collected Notes on the Analects of Confucius, the inverse morphemes word pairs can generally be grouped into two categories: one being in the strict sense AB/BA both occurring at once, the other in the non-strict sense only BA found in Huang's the interpretations while AB occurring in other synchronic or diachronic literature. In Huang's the Interpretations, AB/BA of the inverse morphemes both are mostly coordinated and their compound structures can be classified into cognate words, synonyms and antonyms, wherein most of the synonyms are embodied only in a single form as AB in modern Chinese, which is mainly determined by intonation, historical and cultural situation and language users' psychological inclination. It implies that the word order in Chinese actually bear the effects of these three factors. Some new variations of BA pattern also occurred in Huang's the Interpretations, which represents developmental activeness of the vocabulary in the medieval times, reveals the production pathway of new words in Chinese, increases the expressiveness of vocabulary and more choices for language users, and provides some useful data for the disyllablization of Chinese vocabulary.