A Study on the Semantic Characteristics and Essential Properties of Verbs of “Place” in Chinese from a Diachronic Point of View

This paper analyzed the essential properties of the verbs of "place" from a diachronic point of view. The verbs of "place" was "放(fang)"、"置(zhi)"、"安(an)". According to analysis, the verbs of "place" had three semantic characteristics - ①(place in a fixed place), ②(place anyway or neglect), ③(rest one's heart). "放(fang)" had turned into the dominant word because it had all three semantic characteristics from the Ming Dynasty.BR This paper also described the formation of various disyllable compound words from monosyllabic verbs and their formation rules. Specifically, it is mentioned as follows. The author researched that how monosyllabic verb is developed to a compounded words composed of synonyms and also researched on the reason why "放心(fagnxin)" had developed to Separable Word.BR In addition, This paper indicated that the relationships formed of the semantic characteristics of verbs and grammatical structure. In other wards, researched the reason why the words for the concept of "Place" often collocate with "xia"(下), and often enter to "把"sentence and existential sentence.BR Finally, This paper indicated that the parts of speech can be used in common. In other words, it was found that if an adjective can make the object the same as the property of the adjective, the adjective can be converted into a verb.