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A Study on the Word Formation of Noun-Classifier Compound Words
CUI Yan-ji, ZHAO Lei, AN Feng-cun
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.09.006
Collage of Foreign languages, Yanbian University, Yanji City, Jilin Province, 133002, China
Chinese noun-classifier compound words show different properties in lexical meaning and syntactic collocation. The complexity of these compounds lies in the grammaticalization of classifiers’ system. Some nouns used as classifiers in the position of classifier are not grammaticalized into real classifiers which are temporary classifiers. So some of them are real noun-classifier compounds and some belong to noun-noun compounds. This paper attempts to analyze the structural relation between noun morpheme and classifier morpheme within the word. It also explains that the noun and the classifier compound in the position of light noun in the nP structure.
word formation, noun-classifier compound words, light noun
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