Abstract
This paper mainly applies the qualia structure theory to the study of compound nouns whose lexical meanings cannot be inferred from their morpheme meanings by taking some undirected disyllabic compound nouns as example from the Chinese Semantic Word-formation Database. The paper concludes some specific ways by which morpheme meanings can be integrated with lexical meanings. It is hoped that the research result can be conducive to the further study of Chinese semantic word-formation, compilation of dictionaries on motivation, the lexicographical definition and the vocabulary teaching in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.
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