On Constraint Mechanisms of Foreign-origin Monosyllabic Morphemes' Emergence
Teng Mi · Journal of Anhui University of Technology · 2014
A large number of foreign words have been loaned into Chinese vocabulary,but only a fraction of them have generated monosyllabic morphemes.Through a corpus-based study of some sample morphemes,the mechanisms that constrain the emergence of foreign-origin monosyllabic morphemes are explored by investigating the generative path of these morphemes as well as the pragmatic distribution of the concerned loan words.