Abstract

This article is aimed to analyze a semantic study of the Chinese word “qing” and its corresponding word “light” in English according to the framework of Lexical Typology suggested in françois (2008). From this article, we can clearly see the different semantic meanings of “light” in English. It will be shown by empirical observation sand functional properties. And they will be compared with the corresponding Chinese word “qing”to show similarities and differences of these two totally different language meanings.

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