Language Contact and New Words and Addition of Senses in Chinese——A Study of Loan Translation

2009 
We classify loan translation from various points of view:the transparency of Chinese new words,the grammar structure between the morphemes of the original English words,the different classify of the o-riginal English words in word formation,the number of syllables of Chinese loan translation.The impact of loan translation on lexical system of modern Chinese: add new words;when the English word has several meanings,when we loan translate,we use the centre meaning of the Chinese word to translate the borderline meaning of the English word,therefore add to the meaning of the Chinese word;when the English word add new meaning,the Chinese word adds new meaning accordingly;because of loan translation,some new morphemes come into being,some even become suffixes-to-be.Reasons for loan translation is economic,original,transparent and common character principal of languages.
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