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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the English adjective "light" and its corresponding Chinese word "qing" by using the framework of Lexical Typology suggested in françois (2008). In this paper, the totally different semantic meanings of "light" are shown through functional properties and empirical observations and are compared it with the corresponding Chinese words to show differences and similarities of the two language senses.
In English "light " relates to all the senses: modify colors, modify weight, modify sleep，modify work/exercise，with natural light，gentle，not great，not serve/serious，cheerful. Some of them are shared with the Chinese word "qing": modify weight, modify sleep，modify work/exercise, gentle, not serve/serious. But when the English word "light" means modify color, not great and with natural light we need to translate them into other Chinese words. When the English word "light" means cheerful, it is a special case, as it is similar with "qing ", but we need to add the word "song".

URI: https://repository.pknu.ac.kr:8443/handle/2021.oak/23447
http://pknu.dcollection.net/common/orgView/200000223836

Table Of Contents: I. Introduction 1
II. Theoretical background 4
2.1 Polysemy and Lexical Typology 4
2.2 Research Procedures and Methods of Lexical Typology 5
2.2.1 Classification of the sense 5
2.2.2 Connecting between the sense 9
2.2.3 Lexical semantic map 12
III. Semantic study of “light” and “qing” 15
3.1 Etic grid of “Light” 15
3.1.1 {not heavy}: not weighting too much 17
3.1.2 {not severe}: not that serious or burden 18
3.1.3 {not strong}: not using much force 19
3.1.4 {not great}: not much in amount 20
3.2 Semantic study of “light” and “qing” 20
3.2.1 Emic categorization of “light” and “qing” 24
3.3 Similarity of senses 27
3.4 Differences of senses 28
IV. Conclusion 32
Reference 34
Reference dictionary 36
Corpus site 36

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