This article,on the basis of the theory of "Lexicalization" put forward by Packard,is the contrastive study of lexicalization between English and Chinese N+N compound words.

The output of compounds, in spoken or written English, is an important indicator of a learner’s linguistic competence.

The development of the compound words in the annotations by Du Yu for “Zuozhuan”;

The features of the diachronic development of verbal coordinate compound words in the Chinese language and their etymological changes;

Based on the principle of feature symbol,this paper discusses the sexual discrimination and its elimination from two aspects in word building——suffix and compound words,and points out that the effective cooperation between language layout and social reform in language is required to eliminate sexual discrimination.

A brief talk on interrelation between English compounds and free phrases,idims;

It is observed that‘NV’compounds are relatively rare in Chinese.

the structure,the internal syntax as well as the semantic relations of English and Chinese compounds and based on the main theories concerning grammaticalization and Conceptual Blending Theory,this paper aims at analyzing the cognitive motivations of English and Chinese compounds and studying their differences and similarities.