BINOME-ANTITHETIC-CACOPHONIC  反義聯合詞法﹣難聽

The general principle of euphony is that IN REVERSIBLE BINOMES all MC tones precede Middle Chinese entering tone, and that all Middle Chinese level tones precede MC falling tone. Whatever corresponds to Middle Chinese tones in Old Chinese reconstructions clearly tended to affect preferred word order in reversible binomes in Old Chinese, as demonstrated in detail by Ulrich Unger in his 8 volume grammar of classical Chinese. The attempted subclassification of binomes tries to systematise the evidence for this.

Hypernym
  • BINOMERHETORICAL STYLE in which two-morpheme words are used or preferred to one-syllable words. Customary or emphatic juxtaposition of coordinate elements (with syntactically and semantically reversible word order) without markers of their relation. Traditionally classified as ASYNDETON.
    • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
    Rhetorical device locations: 9
    • 韓非子 奪予之要

      奪予 . Homorganic link problematic.

    • 韓非子 理相奪予，

      奪予 . Homorganic link apparently absent: t-i

    • 韓非子 有盛衰。

      盛衰 . Homorganic link: sibilant.

    • 韓非子 天地不能常侈常費，

      盛衰 . Homorganic link: sibilant.

    • 韓非子 短長、大小、方圓、堅脆、輕重、白黑之謂理。

      大小 . Homorganic link: sibilant.

    • 韓非子 短長、大小、方圓、堅脆、輕重、白黑之謂理。

      白黑 . Homorganic link: guttural.

    • 道德經 民復孝慈；

      孝慈 . Homorganic link: s-dz

    • 論語 君子無眾寡，

      眾寡 . Homorganic link: nasal.

    • 莊子 无益損乎其真。

      益損 . Homorganic link: sibilant.