The Nominalization of"Ri Chang"and the Antigrammaticalization of Distinguishing Words
The corpus investigation shows that,in addition to being an attribute,the word Ri Chang(日常)has also been used as the head of an attributive phrase and as the object of a verb since 1993 and has been nominalized under the promotion of external motives and internal conditions.This is a microcosm of the evolution of distinguishing words and it is also an antigrammaticalization phenomenon.Distinguishing words can be antigrammatically converted into nouns,adjectives and verbs respectively through the two mechanisms of head words deletion and attributive-predicate transposition,which have characteristics:the orientation of the evolution of parts of speech,the specificity of the environment of attributive phrase,the op-timization of compound words and non-individual.As far as Chinese distinguishing words are concerned,antigrammaticalization is not universal,nor is it the whole process of retrogression,but the short-range ret-rogression of some words.Antigrammaticalization cannot form a true mirror relationship with grammatical-ization.
Ri Chang(日常)distinguishing wordsantigrammaticalizationdeletion of head wordsattributive-predicate transposition
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