THE ROLE OF PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE FORMATION OF COMPLEX UNITS DENOTING PROFESSIONS IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

Abstract

Profession or occupation is the most important part of any person’s life. The article is devoted to the process of word-formation in the Chinese language, in which the names of the professional status of people are studied depending on the work functions performed by them. On the one hand, naming of persons by profession in Chinese is created on the basis of derived words. On the other hand, this process is closely related to people’s worldview, how they think about the world in which they live. Thus, the word-formation study of persons’ names by profession from a cognitive point of view (which particular role parts of speech play in the word-formation process) helps not only to know how a person thinks, but also to improve our understanding in the field of Chinese word-formation, as well as the role of the participation of semantic and syntactic characteristics of words in this process. Тhe names of people’s profession in Chinese are complex nominative constructions, and in the process of analyzing them, we need not only to pay attention to the formal similarity of such processes, but also we must not lose sight of the modifications of semantic and syntactic word meanings that contribute to the most correct semantic understanding of the words being transformed.