Lexical-semantics in translation: a combined data-based cognitive approach to the investigation of the semantic relationship of the translations of kèyì

• Main Author: He,Yijia
• Other Authors: Helena Gao
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Semantics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157347
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Many studies of lexical semantics focus on the semantic relations among near-synonyms. Nevertheless, the previous research favored verbs and nouns. The meanings of adjectives and adverbs are hard to explore, as they are modifiers, whose meanings are influenced by the words they modify. This study ai...