Author(s)

Yang Bin

Corresponding Author

Yang Bin

ABSTRACT

Taking the feeding facility name of “dog, rooster, ox, goat, horse and pig” six domestic animals as object, this paper studies and describes the outline of evolution of six sub-semantic fields and make conclusion of the features of total semantic field for the “six domestic animals”: when we see from the quantity of feeding facility name, “horse” is the maximum one, “goat and dog” are the minimum; according to its original meaning , the feeding facility name can be divided into three kinds, like “houses for animals”, “fencing”, “residence for people”, the time that each one combined with certain animal is different; the feeding facility name appears later from south to north and the features of ancient Chinese is maintained more integral from north to south when we review from the location of dialect.

KEYWORDS

Six domestic animals, feeding facility name, Historical evolution, evolution features