摘要
什么是“词”一直是现代汉语的一个老大难问题。语法学家和词典编纂专家习惯于认“字”，“从分不从合”，所以现代汉语的“通用词”只有两万多个，再增加据说只能是文言词和方言词了，这跟现代其他文明语言的通用词的数量相比就太少了。调查表明，普通人的“词感”跟专家大不相同，他们是“从合不从分”，认为双音节、三音节的组合大部分是“词”，这跟吕叔湘先生的建议一致，很值得按这样的标准试一试。
Abstract What is a word remains an unsolved problem,theoretically and practically.Grammarians and lexicographers,familiar with Classic Chinese and ideographic characters,stick to a principle of decomposing polysyllabic combinations of characters into independent words whenever possible.As a result,the total number of words in common use in Modern Chinese amounts only to a little more than 20,000,incredibly far less than the average number of other cultured languages.However,recent investigations among people of different strata in Wuhan and Beijing show the popular intuition of word differs greatly from the practice of specialists.Nonspecialists are inclined to take most disyllabic and trisyllabic forms as words.Their opinions coincide precisely with Prof.L Shuxiang's proposal of a practical treatment of these combinations as words,and is quite worthy of being tried out in practice.
出处
《语言文字应用》
CSSCI
北大核心
1999年第3期3-9,共7页
Applied Linguistics
