The Diachronic Evolution of Semantic Expressions of the Words like"Tanian(他年)"and Its Motivation
Through the investigation of large-scale corpus,it has been found that in modern Chinese,"tanian(他年)"and some similar structures have lost the function of expressing past time and can only be used to express future time.Some of the existing reference books do not strictly distinguish the changes in the interpretation of the relevant terms at the synchronic level,resulting in some deviations in their interpretation.From a diachronic perspective,this kind of words used to express past time and future time at the early stage.After Sui,Tang and the Five Dynasties,they gradually inclined to express future time.In the Qing Dynasty,the semantic adjustment of this kind of words was basically completed.There are many reasons for the adjustment of the semantic expression of these words.Among them,the internal factor is that these words contain the semantic characteristics of"the future".Together with such external factors as the shift of the narrator's perspective and the spread and promotion of vernacular popular lit-erature,they contributed to the semantic adjustment of these words.
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