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Cheng, Chin-Chuan Hsieh, Kuei-Lan 2011-05-07T12:44:04Z 2011-05-07T12:44:04Z 10000-01-01 1996 Sino-Japanese is an important part of the Japanese language. It is unique in the sense that it has many properties the rest of Japanese does not have. This is due to the fact that Sino-Japanese is not native to the Japanese language, but is borrowed from the Chinese language centuries ago. As a result, it preserves some vestige of its original language, Chinese, while adopting new characteristics from the native Japanese. This unique feature often is the source of confusion for both Chinese native speakers and Japanese native speakers in learning the other language. Among the Sino-Japanese, most are nominal compounds of two or four Chinese characters. This group of Sino-Japanese is very productive, and is extensively used in the Japanese language. Despite of its importance, there are very few studies of Sino-Japanese nominal compounds. And none of them is from the perspective of Chinese native speakers. In this study, a special class of four character Sino-Japanese nominal compounds will be studied from the perspective of its historical tie with their corresponding Chinese counterparts. The result offers a new insight into the formation process, and the internal relation of the Sino-Japanese nominal compounds. The meanings of many Sino-Japanese nominal constructions are ambiguous. To properly address this difficult semantic phenomenon, a communication model based on the functional approach is introduced, and a semantic compatibility hypothesis is proposed to address the issue. Although the result is preliminary, it does point to a promising direction for resolving the problem. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:44:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702541.pdf: 6394670 bytes, checksum: e91613cf9d5471fd1005011620bca8a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:45:02Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:19:54-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591087086 AAI9702541 (UMI)AAI9702541 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20606 eng Copyright 1996 Hsieh, Kuei-Lan Language, Ancient Language, Linguistics Language, Modern A study of nominal compounds in Sino-Japanese text Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.