This paper,based on the review of the relevant findings to date,dis- cusses the construal motivation of this type of clause,points out a number of problems,and expounds the nature of some debates.

Author analyzes the basic producing and developing ways and laws of early stage terms in sciences and technologies in China by some examples, and by four aspects, such as motivation, syllable, refined and popular tastes and reference for Japanese word.

This article analyzes the motivation of pronunciation,word-formation and meaning of coined English brand names in the hope of giving some help to the naming of exported products of our country.

Body metaphor,as one of metaphors,establishes its motivation of word-making by metaphorizing human organs and describing the abstract concepts with basic words,modifying words,reiterative locutio.

This paper mainly deals with such issues as motivation of word-making, change of function, redundancy and dislocation, which are related to body metaphor.

Swearwords,of course,have not been studied with the te-rms of basis for word-building at present.

This paper explains the three confusing terms in semantic study-internal form of the word,basis for word-building and customary etymology,and analyses the complicated relationship among the