Investigating the Borrowing of English Inflectional Morphemes Into Chinese Newspapers

IF 1 4区教育学 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI:10.1515/cjal-2023-0406

Chuanbin Ni, Xiaobing Jin

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Abstract

It is controversial whether English inflectional morphemes can be systematically borrowed into written Chinese since English and Chinese are typologically and orthographically different. This paper intends to investigate the borrowing of eight English inflectional morphemes [–’s (possessive), –(e)s (plural), –ed (past tense, past participle), –ing (present participle), –en (past participle),–s (the 3rd person singular), –er (comparative), and –est (superlative)] into Chinese with a corpus of Chinese newspapers collected from 2005 to 2021. The findings of this study suggest a significant presence of the systematically borrowed English inflectional morphemes into Chinese newspapers in terms of borrowability. Based on the analysis of the linguistic features and frequency distribution of the borrowed morphemes into Chinese newspapers, it can be concluded that the English inflectional morphemes borrowed can be well adapted into Chinese.

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中文报纸借用英语词形变化的研究

由于英语和汉语在类型学和正字法上的差异，英语词素能否被系统地借用到书面汉语中存在争议。本文以 2005 年至 2021 年收集的中文报纸语料为研究对象，探讨了 8 个英语屈折词[-'s（所有格）、-(e)s（复数）、-ed（过去式、过去分词）、-ing（现在分词）、-en（过去分词）、-s（第三人称单数）、-er（比较级）和-est（最高级）]在中文中的借用情况。研究结果表明，在可借用性方面，系统借用的英语词素在中文报纸中的存在意义重大。根据对汉语报纸借用语素的语言特点和频率分布的分析，可以得出结论：借用的英语语气词可以很好地适应汉语。

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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL) (formerly known as Teaching English in China – CELEA Journal) was created in 1978 as a newsletter by the British Council, Beijing. It is the affiliated journal of the China English Language Education Association (founded in 1981 and now the Chinese affiliate of AILA [International Association of Applied Linguistics]). The Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics is the only English language teaching (ELT) journal in China that is published in English, serving as a window to Chinese reform on ELT for professionals in China and around the world. The journal is internationally focused, fully refereed, and its articles address a wide variety of topics in Chinese applied linguistics which include – but also reach beyond – the topics of language education and second language acquisition.