THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD “TIÁN” IN MODERN CHINESE BASED ON THE QUALIA STRUCTURE THEORY

Abstract

In this paper, by comparing the definition of "tián" in the commonly used Chinese dictionary and the corresponding word "sweet" in the English dictionary, it is found that the division of meanings in the English dictionary is far more precise than that in the Chinese dictionary. It can be seen that the Chinese dictionary may have missing meanings. Therefore, based on the CCL corpus, 10,000 corpora of the word " tián " were extracted, and the distribution of its meaning items was exhaustively analyzed on the basis of the corpus, and the interpretation of the word " tián " in modern Chinese was adjusted by using the physical property structure theory. After analysis, it was re-divided into ten meaning items and found that the two new meanings try to realize the completeness of meaning division, reflect the accuracy of meaning description, and provide some thoughts for lexicographers.