ONESELF  自身

SELF AND NOT the SPEAKER
Hypernym
  • SELFPERSON that is NOT OTHER.
    • PERSONHUMAN as an ABSTRACT THING which FEELS, THINKS AND DECIDES, AND HAS RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
      • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
        • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
Modern Chinese Criteria
自己

自家

自個兒

自各兒

自身

本身

一己

自我

本人

小我

我

自

己

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／　LU JIANMING

Words

我  wǒ OC: ŋaalʔ MC: ŋɑ 109 Attributions

自我

    Word relations
  • Oppos: 彼/THAT
  • Oppos: 彼/OTHER
  • Oppos: 民/PEOPLE The dominant current general word for the people is mín 民 (ant. jūn 君 "ruler"), and this term refers to the people particularly insofar as they are ruled by a ruler or belong to a state.
  • Oppos: 人/OTHER Rén 人 refers indefinitely to other persons, in the singular (someone else) or in the plural (other people), but never as "the other person" or as "the other people."
  • Oppos: 敵/ENEMY The general word for an enemy or opponent of any kind is dí 敵 (ant. yǒu 友 "friend") which can also often refer to mere competitors or adversaries.
  • Oppos: 外/OUTSIDE The dominant word for outside is wài 外, a word with great semantic and syntactic flexibility.

    Syntactic words
  • nabconceptthe concept of "oneself"CH
  • npro(adN)non-referential, militaryone's own military party, one's own army,　"敵我的我",  "己方軍隊", 我軍CH
  • npro+Vtnonreferentialpreposed object: oneselfCH
  • npro.aban abstractly nominalised pronounCH
  • npro.abnonreferential, contrastiveoneself
  • npro.postVtcf. 知我則知人"when one understands oneself then one will understand others" oneself 
  • npro0.adNmarkednon-referential: one's
  • npro0.adNunmarkedone's
  • npro0nonreferential, impersonalimpersonal pronoun: one, only sometimes contrastive: oneself (as opposed to other things) 
  • npro{PRED}be (a matter of/because of) oneself，是自我的事兒CH
吾  wú OC: ŋaa MC: ŋuo̝ 108 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • npro(adN)militaryone's army; 自軍CH
  • npro0.adNimpersonalnon-referential: one's
  • npro0.adNmarked吾之　one's
  • npro0impersonalimpersonal pronoun: one, oneself
己  jǐ OC: kɯʔ MC: kɨ 61 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Ant: 彼/THAT
  • Ant: 彼/THAT
  • Oppos: 人/OTHER Rén 人 refers indefinitely to other persons, in the singular (someone else) or in the plural (other people), but never as "the other person" or as "the other people."
  • Oppos: 彼/OTHER

    Syntactic words
  • nab[.post-N]one's Self
  • npro(contrastive:) oneself
  • npro(.adN)the subject's (contextually determinate N)
  • npro.post:Vt+prepafter preposition: yourself, onelself, etc.
  • npro.postVtcontrastivecontrastive in object position: oneself, himself, herself, themselves
  • npro.postVtnon-contrastive知己
  • npro0.adNnon-referential, often contrastive: one's own 己力
  • npro0emphaticoneself (emphatic, contrasting with others)
  • npro{OBJ}+Vt(resumptive or reflexive:) oneself as object
  • npro{PRED}(contrastive:) be a matter of oneself; be a matter of the agent
自  zì OC: sblids MC: dzi 20 Attributions

    Syntactic words
  • npro.adVt[oN]indirect object: for oneselfVt things for oneselfCH
  • npro{OBJ}+Vtimpersonal自己把自己oneself; on one's own initiative
  • npro＋.Vt＋Nto Vt one's own NCH
  • npro＋Vthighest subjectVt oneself (NOT the subject of the Vt! Exceptional usage.)CH
身  shēn OC: qhjin MC: ɕin 18 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • npost-npropersonCH
  • npro身死國亡"he himself died and his state was ruined": oneself (as opposed to other people)
  • npro.adVin personCH
  • npro.post-Vtoneself (as object)CH
自我  zì wǒ MC: dzijH ngaX OC: sblids ŋaalʔCH 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPprooneself; his own selfCH
自己  zì jǐ OC: sblids kɯʔ MC: dzi kɨ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • PP{DISCONT}reflexiveX oneself
予  yú MC: yo OC: laCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adNrarely: one's very own (as opposed to 吾 "one's own")CH
余  yú MC: yo OC: laCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • npro.adNNEVER in pre-Han or Han texts: one'sCH
其  qí MC: gi OC: ɡɯCH 1 Attribution

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 各/ALL Gè 各 quantifies by emphasising the separate features of each item quantiified over. [INDIVIDUAL], [SUBJECT-BINDING]; [n+Vt]

    Syntactic words
  • npro0one, German "man", French "on"CH
己自  jǐ zì OC: kɯʔ sblids MC: kɨ dzi 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPpro.adVoneself
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    Syntactic words
  • npro.adNrarely: one's very own (as opposed to 吾 "one's own")CH
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    Syntactic words
  • npro.adNone'sCH

Existing SW for

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