A Study on Causative Psych Verbs and Their Definitions in the Learner's Chinese Dictionary

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10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.97How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Causative psych Verb, the learner's Chinese Dictionary, Chinese as a Foreign Language, Semantics, Syntax, Lexicography

Abstract

This paper studied the causative psych verbs and their treatment in the dictionaries for CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) learners by a comparative method, with an aim to improve their presentation in the dictionaries. First, it elaborated on the differences between Chinese and English in the semantic and syntactic features of the verbs. And then the definitions and representation of the verbs were examined in four representative CFL dictionaries. It was found that the dictionaries under investigation had the following major problems: incomplete macrostructure, missing causative sense, and lack of grammatical and usage information. On the basis of these findings, this paper proposed the methods to represent causative psych verbs in the CFL dictionaries with model entries. The proposed methods and models are applicable to the practice of dictionary making, and thus they are particularly significant both to lexicography and teaching and learning Chinese as a Foreign Language.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - A Study on Causative Psych Verbs and Their Definitions in the Learner's Chinese Dictionary
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)
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