“并”字的起源与发展

The Origin and Development of Character “并”

"并"字是"並 ", " 併"," 倂"," 幷"," 竝"、" 傡"等字的简化字形,其字义内涵较为丰富,可作表"合并、聚合"的动词,可作范围、时间、语气等性质的副词,也可作介词、连词表并列、递进。研究表明:简化后的"并"字最初是三个意义不同的汉字,三种字形的字义在词性方面相关程度依次是:名词、动词、副词、连词(介词);随着语法化序列的演变,"并"字产生了表示转折的语义;另外,"并"字放在否定词前表强调、放在两个形容词之间表转折的语义在网络上受到广泛传播。

The simplified form character “并” has several traditional shapes, includes “並 ” , “併”,“亻井” “并”,“竝” and “竝”“并” has a lot of meaning, it can be used for the verb, means “ merger,aggregation” , the adverbs, expresses scope, time, tone and so on, moreover, it can be used for the conjunctions, means “ side by side” , “ progressive”. The results show that the simplified Chinese characters“并” areoriginallythreeChinesecharacterswithdifferentmeanings.Thethreetypesofwordmeaningintermsof degree of relevance are： noun, verb, adverb, conjunction （preposition）. As the sequence of grammaticalization evolves the word producesthesemanticsofthe transition In addition the character beforethenegative word expressing “ emphasize”, when it is appears between the two adjectives means “ transition”, which are widely disseminated on the Internet.