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A Brief Analysis of Semantic Interactions Between Loanwords and Native Words in the Tang Dynasty

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2019)

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Loanwords are words borrowed from another language. This paper conducts case studies of Chinese loanwords in the Tang Dynasty, including both transliterated and liberally translated words, e.g. “Kurung slave”, “lion”, “camel bird” and “nail aromatic”. With synchronic and diachronic analysis, the study finds that the incorporation of loanwords not only brings in new words, but also triggers semantic interactions between loanwords and native words, resulting in the misconception of both loanwords and native words.

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This paper is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Yuchen Zhu

  2. Institute of Chinese Information Processing, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Renfen Hu

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  2. Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China

    Yangsen Zhang

  3. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

    Pengyuan Liu

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Zhu, Y., Hu, R. (2020). A Brief Analysis of Semantic Interactions Between Loanwords and Native Words in the Tang Dynasty. In: Hong, JF., Zhang, Y., Liu, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_12

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