“字”、“词”关系刍议——“字本位”理论的优势与不足

Discussion on the Relationship between ZI and WORD： Advantages and Disadvantages of ZI - based Theory

“字”是中国传统语言学的核心，但随着西方语言学的传人，“字”及其研究日益被边缘化。徐通锵先生的“字本位”理论有助于彻底扭转这种局面。“字本位”在成功避免了切分“语素”或“词”的窘境的同时，也过于轻率地否定了“词”在汉语中的客观存在。作为汉语的基础性结构单位，单音节的“字”可以通过语音、语义两种途径来构造双音节或多音节的“词”。

ZI is the core of Chinese traditional linguistics, but ZI and its research are increasingly marginalized with the introduction of western linguistics. Mr. Xu Tongqiang＇s ZI - based theory helps to completely reverse this situation. ZI - based theory manages to avoid the segmentation dilemma of MORPHEME or WORD, but simply denies the existence of WORD in Chinese. As the basic structure unit of Chinese, ZI（one syllable expresses one meaning） can construct WORD（two syllables or more syllables express one meaning） by two ways of phonetics and semantics.