THE INTERPRETATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMPOUND NOUNS : TAKING THE WORD GROUP "SHUI" AS AN EXAMPLE

Abstract

The semantic analysis and interpretation of nouns is one of the important issues in language studies and Chinese information processing. Among them, the semantic depiction and portrayal of compound nouns has important theoretical significance and application value in Chinese language teaching. In this paper, under the guidance of qualia structure theory, we use corpus technology and combine case studies to explore the interpretation and optimization of name-noun compound nouns. Through the study, we arrive at the following analysis: (1) The implied predicate in the name-noun combination can be used as an interpretive verb for the semantic relations between nouns, highlighting some kind of qualia role of nouns. The implied predicate is an important reason for the complexity of the semantic relations between noun-name combinations, and should be taken seriously in dictionary interpretation and Chinese vocabulary teaching. (2) Some of the existing interpretations are still incomplete and not sufficiently systematic, and there are still phenomena such as interpreting words by words, which is not conducive to semantic deduction and interpretation.