Diachronic Change in Sino-Japanese Word Formation : Focus on Four-Character Words(<Special Issue>Current Topics and Prospects in the Study of Modern Japanese)

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  • 四字漢語の語構成パターンの変遷(<特集>近代語研究の今とこれから)
  • 四字漢語の語構成パターンの変遷
  • ヨンジ カンゴ ノ ゴ コウセイ パターン ノ ヘンセン

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It is said that new vocabulary items in contemporary Japanese are more likely to be loanwords (especially from English) rather than Sino-Japanese words. While this is true if attention is limited to Sino-Japanese words written with two characters, Sino-Japanese words written with three or four characters are still created quite productively. Such longer words are commonly used but have not attracted as much attention as two-character words, in part because many of these longer words are not listed in dictionaries. This study investigates the formation patterns of four-character Sino-Japanese words and the diachronic changes in those patterns during the Edo, Meiji, and contemporary periods.

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