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This paper analyzes differences between Structure A: “a1 + a2 + de + n” and structure B: “a1’ + de + a2’ + n’”, which are extracted from the corpus of People’s Daily from 2019 to 2020. Influential factors and constraints from semantics, syntax, word order, rhythm, etc. are proposed in the paper. Our study shows that semantic similarity of double-syllable double attributive adjectives in structure A is higher than that of structure B. The character de in two structures serves as a “segmentation mark” to maintain stability of structures and cannot be shifted freely. Moreover, we examine that factors influencing word order of double attributives are the result of the combination of semantics, cognition, habit, rhythm, etc. Among them, the dominant factor of structure A is cognition, while that of the structure B is semantics. Besides, we argue that high-frequency nouns of the two structures are mostly abstract nouns and are poor in semantic self-containedness. In addition, words at the nuclear stress location in the two structures mainly end with a falling tone. The paper is further analyzed from the perspective of prosodic structure and highlighting effect. This study provides new insights to account for the combination mechanisms of multiple attributives, as well as contributing to the construction of knowledge database with a novel method.
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Notes
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The research scope of this article only considers the case where the nouns in the structure are bare nouns, so the corpus of NP structure of nouns is removed.
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The corpus of “People’s Daily” in this article comes from “People's Daily” Graphic Database http://data.people.com.cn/”.
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The definitions of the relevant words in this article are all from the “Modern Chinese Dictionary” (7th edition).
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The prosodic adhesion group is between prosodic words and prosodic phrases. It is a first-level unit composed of the combination of prosodic words and adhesion words. This kind of prosodic adhesion group has only one stress as a whole, and most of the stress fall on the attached component "host" [13].
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The work was supported by Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China (18ZDA295); Funding Project of Education Ministry for Development of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (16YJA740036); Top-ranking Discipline Team Support Program of Beijing Language and Culture University (JC201902); the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (18YBT03) ; BLCU Supported Project for Young Researchers Program (supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities) (19YCX047).
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Song, R., Zhao, W., Wang, Z. (2022). Study on the Order of Double-Syllable Double Attributives and Selection Restrictions—Take the Structures of a1 + a2 + De + n and a1’ + De + a2’ + n’ as Examples. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13250. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06547-7_4
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