英文摘要 |
This paper aims to examine how near synonyms are used to define each other, and how illustrative examples are build in Chinese dictionaries. Although XIANGTONG, YIYANG and TONGYANG all mean “the same”, they are not always exchangeable. An examination of the syntactic functions, the occurrence frequency, and most of all, the collocation relationship of this synonymous set in the SINICA Corpus unveils their different referential properties: XIANGTONG denotes reciprocal and internal reading, YIYANG conveys distributive and external reading, while the compound term TONGYANG indicates the reciprocal and external reading. |