Abstract
The morphemes in a word are related structurally and semantically. This study uses the notion of verbal morpheme, and a verbal morpheme with lexical meaning of cooking is a cooking verbal morpheme. Most Chinese cooking verbs are monosyllabic, consisting of a single verbal morpheme, which has concrete lexical meaning and strong productivity of word formation. The objects of this study are Chinese compound words formed by cooking verbal morphemes. This study aims to investigate the structural and semantic relation of the verbal morphemes, mainly investigating the lexical morphology in a specific word group with the cooking meaning. As a result, in Chinese, the relative compound words are rich in the number and types, and some of them have similar structure with Chinese phrasal structure. As for lexical morphology, the most productive type is modifier-core type. As for the meaning of the components, those with the related relation(关联关系) are the most productive. But original meaning relation(一致关系) is also quite productive. This means participating in word formation while maintaining the conceptual meaning as much as possible rather than the expanding meaning. The core meaning of most compound words are cooking, however, some of the compound words(熬, 涮) choose metaphorical meanings as its core meaning. It is widely used as a metaphor in our life.
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