candChineseisideographic.EnglishishypotacticandChineseisparatactic.Chinesebelongstothecategoryofanalyticlanguage.(分析性)Englishfallsintothecategoryofsynthetic-analyticlanguage.(综合性)Whatshouldweknowbeforestarting?21.SynchronicVSDiachronicSynchronic:Asynchronicdescriptiontakesafixedinstantasitspointofobservation.Diachronic:Adiachronicdescriptiontakesahistoricalperiodasitspointofobservation.Whatshouldweknowbeforestarting?32.ArbitrarinessV.SConventionArbitrariness:sound,form,meaningE.g.Book,书,libreConvention:idiom,meaningE.g.Don’tridethehighhorse.Whatshouldweknowbeforestarting?3Therearethreelevelsinaword:SoundFormMeaningWhatshouldweknowbeforestarting?4Classificationofwords:VariableandinvariablewordsGrammaticalwordsandlexicalwordsClosed-classwordsandopen-classwordsWhatshouldweknowbeforestarting?5
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