A Comparative Analysis of HBV in Korean, Chinese and English
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| Title | A Comparative Analysis of HBV in Korean, Chinese and English |
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| Abstract | Human body vocabulary (HBV) is one part of the core vocabulary in Korean, Chinese and English. The fact that Korean, Chinese and English belong to three different types of languages results in some different lexical and semantic features in HBV of the three languages. But due to the common physiological phenomenon and similar experiences shared by the people speaking different languages, Korean, Chinese and English HBV shows some similarities as well. In terms of morphological productivity, HBV of the three languages differs in number, structure and collocation but has the similar processes of word formation, that is, derivation, compounding, conversion, and etc. HBV of the three languages experiences some similar ways of semantic change as well as semantic asymmetry, such as, transposition, overlapping, misplacement, or vacancy. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-05-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 5 (2012) |
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