The essential factor to decide noun s category shift is noun s semantic basis and human s cognitive psychology.

And reality characterizes the semantic basis of hyperbole, which involvers the conditions and degree of hyperbole.

Through tracing back the development of the usage of the verb Jiao(叫) since the Tang Dynasties (唐) and comparing it with the semantics and syntax with other synonymous words, the present analysis aims to identify the semantic foundation and construction triggering the grammaticalization of the verb Jiao(叫) towards a passive marker.

These adverbs, which use the imaginary meanings of words as the semantic foundation, come into being and develop in demand of using language.

This paper attempts to make a study of the semantic foundation and pragmatic value of variability.

There is a semantic motivation for its appearance in Mandarin Chinese.

This paper first attempts a hypothesis to the effect that the semantic content of a noun entails some semantic components denoting actions and that of a verb also entails some semantic components denoting things (the Hypothesis of Mutual Inclusion of Semantic Contents of Noun and Verb), and argues that the Hypothesis can be employed to account for the semantic motivation of the shift.