Abstract

This thesis is about the diachronic evolution of the verbs of “buy and sell”. There was “mai(卖)”、“mai(买)”、“gou(购)”、“xiao(销)”、“shou(售)”、“yu(鬻)”、“fan(贩)”。“mai(卖)” and “mai(买)” mianly used the dominant word for the concept of “buy and sell” among them from ancient times till modern times。This thisis focused on the research for verbs of “buy and sell” had semantic features, and found out the reason why there was no the historical replacement of “mai(卖)” and “mai(买)” with the any word in this semantic field.BR It also described the formation of various compound words, and how monosyllabic verb is developed various compound words. In addition, it showed the formation of verbs of “buy and sell” and “qu(取)”、“jin(进)”、“chu(出)”、“gei(给)” and the reason why the verbs for the concept of “buy and sell” frequently collocate with it.BR Finally, Recently, more and more attention had paid to typology. from the typology of view, it showed the reason why “mai(卖)” to be an ergative verb among “mai(卖)” and “mai(买)”.

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