汉语是一种双音节词占优势的语言,构词方式通常采用复合法,语素与语素以并列、支配、主谓等基本结构类型组合成词。顺序不同的两个相同的语素,可构成汉语中特有的倒序词。文章首先分析倒序词在结构、词义、词性、色彩等方面的特点,指出倒序词在丰富汉语词汇和提高语言表达效果方面的重要价值。其次提出应根据语言发展的自然规律,依照必要性、普遍性和明确性三个原则对倒序词加以规范。
Chinese is a language in which double-syllable words predominate. Words are usually formed by means of compounding and the morphemes in them are, for the most part, parallel,or have predicate-object / subject-predicate relationships. Reversible words are the ones that have the same morphemes in different orders. In this paper, the authors first analyze the features of reversible words, including their structure, meaning, word class, and overtone, then point out that reversible words play an important role in enriching Chinese vocabulary and improving lin- guistic expressiveness and finally propose regulating reversible words in view of language devel- opment, universality and necessity.