同义名词辨析一直是研究词汇语义的学者们所关心的问题,但传统的辨析方式和手段在实际效果上很难令人满意,主要原因在于它们大体上还是沿袭一种基于意义的辨析路子,而意义是难以确切把握的。本文尝试利用生成词库论中的物性角色描写体系初步建立一个较为完整的同义名词描写框架;通过对30余组同义名词进行描写,我们总结了若干条带有普遍性的关于同义名词语义差异的规律,并展示了物性角色在同义名词辨析方面的优势;希望这种描写方法能最终应用到中文信息处理和国际汉语教学之中。
Discrimination of synonymous nouns has been the concern of scholars studying lexical semantics. However, a traditional meaning-based analysis is unsatisfactory, because meaning itself is elusive. This paper adopts qualia roles in generative lexicon theory, with the aim to establish a relatively complete framework of synonymous noun description. Through describing more than 30 pairs of synonymous nouns, we come up with several common regularities in the semantic information about synonymous nouns. The analysis exhibits the advantages of qualia roles in differentiating synonymous nouns. We hope the framework as proposed here can be eventually applied to Chinese information processing and international Chinese teaching.