SOME SEMANTIC FEATURERES OF SINO VIETNAMESE WORD

Abstract

Due to geographical position and historical circumstance, the Chinese Vietnamese words in general and the Sino Vietnamese in particular was imported into Vietnam through various doors and periods. Their large quantity contributed to the diversity of the Vietnamese vocabularies. The Sino-Vietnamese participated in the sematic assimilation in the direction of: keeping the original meaning, narrowing the meaning, expanding the meaning and changing the meaning completely from the original meaning. According to the linguistic statistic, the Sino Vietnamese which takes up 60% the Vietnamese, plays a very significant role in the Vietnamese lexicon. Although Vietnamese learners have been taught Sino-Vietnamese through all levels of grade, during our teaching, it is found that Vietnamese in general and the undergraduate students in particular still find difficult to use the Sino Vietnamese. Thus, studying the sematic characteristics of the Sino Vietnamese will contribute to the teaching, learning and researching the Sino Vietnamese vocabularies