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Exploring and Analyzing the Contact-Induced Semantic Transferring Cases Based on a Sanskrit-Chinese Parallel Corpus

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Semantic transferring is a special way of producing the new senses of words in the process of language contact. From the perspective of Sanskrit-Chinese language contact, a parallel corpus of Sanskrit and Chinese languages was established and two categories of semantic transferring cases were brought into discussion to analyze their respective motivation. Various cases were provided to illustrate the conditions, processes and results of semantic transferring, which is a cross-language phenomenon that can only be investigated by comparing two languages in detail. Semantic transferring, as a special linguistic phenomenon, can reflect the similarities and differences between the mechanisms of lexical representation across different languages to a certain extent.

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    Translated by Dharmarakṣa in the Western Jin Dynasty. The sentence means that this Bodhisattva uses the high, the medium and the low ranks of the heart to remove evil.

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    Translated by Buddhabhadra in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The sentence means that The Bodhisattva knows that the essence of different things is divided into inferior, medium and superior.

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    Translated by Kumārajīva in Yao Qin. The sentence means that just like the sea, the taste is the same regardless of the middle front or the back.

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Acknowledgments

The work was supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 16BYY143). The author would also like to thank the national youth talent support plan in the Ten Thousand Talent Program.

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  3. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

    Jiun-Shiung Wu

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Qiu, B. (2018). Exploring and Analyzing the Contact-Induced Semantic Transferring Cases Based on a Sanskrit-Chinese Parallel Corpus. In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_14

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