SENTENCE    句子

SPEAK>SPEECH COMMUNICATING a COMPLETE THOUGHT.???
CLAUSEDECLARATIONEXPRESSION OF VIEWS/FACTSPROPOSITIONAFFIRMATIONASSERTIONANNOUNCEMENTUTTERANCECOMMUNICATIONPROCLAMATION
Old Chinese Criteria
1. Cí 辭 was probably used as a technical term for a proposition by Mohist logicians, but in general the term refers to the formulation of a sentence. 2. Yán 言 refers to a public statement or a publicised saying.
Modern Chinese Criteria
句 is colloquial modern Chinese for a sentence. 句子 is the regular modern word for a sentence. 語句 refers to the sentence as an element in discourse, or to a statement. 文句 (lit) focusses on the sentence as an organising element in literary composition. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • PROVERB　SHORT SENTENCE OFTEN USED USED by ALL FOR EXPRESSING an ACCEPTED TRUTH OR COMMON OPINION. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
  • AXIOM　SENTENCE that is TRUE AND does NOT NEED PROOF. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
  • PARADOX　SENTENCE WHICH IS APPARENTLY TRUE AND UNTRUE AT THE SAME TIME. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
See also
  • AFFIRMSPEAK:say something and SPEAK:say that WHAT one SPEAKS:says IS CERTAINLY TRUE.
Hypernym
  • SPEAK　ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 1031

  • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 316

    DICTUM

  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

    PROPOSITION

    • Words (10 items)

    句  jù OC: kos MC: ki̯o
    句  gōu OC: koo MC: ku 24 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabphrase, sentence; doctrinal statement
    • nabtexta line (in a poem)
    言  yán OC: ŋan MC: ŋi̯ɐn 22 Attributions

    Yán 言 refers to a public statement or a publicised saying.

      Word relations
    • Subject: 當/TRUE Dāng 當 (ant. guò 過 "wrong") refers prototypically to what fits the facts and does not deviate.

      Syntactic words
    • npropositions; statements; pronouncements; proposals
    • nmtext
    • vi.post-V{NUM}actpronounce V number of sentencesCH
    辭  cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 14 Attributions

    Cí 辭 was probably used as a technical term for a proposition by Mohist logicians, but in general the term refers to the formulation of a sentence.

      Syntactic words
    • nabformulation; statement; MO: proposition
    • nabderivedsuggestionCH
    • nabpluralformulations; formulae, statementsCH
    言句  yán jù OC: ŋan kos MC: ŋi̯ɐn ki̯o 7 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabwords and phrases; phrase, sentence
    名句  míng jù OC: meŋ kos MC: miɛŋ ki̯o 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabwords and phrases
    句子  jù zǐ OC: kos sklɯʔ MC: ki̯o tsɨ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabphrase, sentence
    章句  zhāng jù OC: kjaŋ kos MC: tɕi̯ɐŋ ki̯o 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabtextparagraph and clause; sentence; phrase
    語  yǔ MC: ngjoX OC: ŋaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • n(complete) sentenceCH
    語句  yǔ jù OC: ŋaʔ kos MC: ŋi̯ɤ ki̯o 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabphrases
    居錯  jū cuò MC: kjo tshak OC: ka skhaaɡ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt[oN](= ju3cuo4 舉措) put words > formulate a statementLZ