The Meaning-shift Unit of Chinese Intensifiers: A Corpus-based Study

Meaning-Shift unit put forward by John Sinclair is the latest theory of meaning in corpus linguistics early 21st century. In this paper, it aims to analyze units wanquan, an attempt shed light on whether valid account for behavior such a Chinese intensifier. The result illustrates that influenced categories co-selection, which semantic prosody plays decisive role, and wanquan has four types units, each canonical form several possible variants.