Competition And Differentiation Of A Pair Of Morpheme-Inverted Words In Mandarin Chinese: Douzheng And Zhengdou

A large number of morpheme-inverted words are unique elements in Chinese vocabulary, which is an important lexical phenomenon occurred in the history of the development and evolution of Chinese vocabulary. As a corpus driven study, this paper discusses a pair of morpheme-inverted words douzheng and zhengdou from microscopic perspective. Based on the statistics and analysis, this paper explores the origin, occurrence time, evolution process, service conditions and the reasons of semantic changes of douzheng and zhengdou. And this study aims at providing some reference for the study of morpheme-inverted words from microscopic perspective.