关于“软X”的探析

Abstract

With the continuous social progress and development, a large number of new words and word-building methods have emerged to help people understand and master new things. Among these new words and word-building methods, quasi-affixes have drawn the attention of the public with their ability to build massive new words. Words containing a quasi-affix are easy to remember and understand, and people can quickly recognize and accept them. Therefore, studies on quasi-affixes has always been underlined by the linguistics circle. These fruitful, progressively deepened studies cover a wide range from the proposal of the concept of quasi-affix to the criteria and identification methods of quasi-affixes to analysis of specific examples. Among those many analyses of the criteria and identification methods of quasi-affixes, "软", as a representative quasi-affix, appears frequently. However, at present, analyses of the quasi-affix "软" itself are less common. This paper analyzes the quasi-affix "软" from the following aspects: its semantic bleaching, its fixed position in word-building, and its part-of-speech tagging and prolificacy. In addition, The "X" of "软 X" is also analyzed seperately from syllable, part of speech and constituent of sentence in the text. And finally, "软 X" is completely analyzed through figuring out a source of "软 X" caused by social advancement and linguistic structure.