A Study on the Collocation of Latest Mandarin Verb Neologism

This study is about the collocation of Mandarin verb neologism. It focuses on grasping the recent tendency of Mandarin verb neologisms by analyzing the collocation of V-N.BR The number of total data is 123, which were newly included in Modern Chinese Dictionary(7th edition). Mandarin verb neologisms have the highest percentages of ‘change’ in the ‘movement verbs’ by classification based on semantic property. V1(monovalent verb) has a high percentage of the verbs such as ‘change’, ‘other event’ and ‘social behavior’. V2(bivalent verbs) has a high percentage of the verbs such as ‘change’, ‘social behavior’, ‘possession’ and ‘communication’. The interesting is that Mandarin verb neologisms classified by argument, V1 strongly collocate with ‘organism’. In contrast, N1 and N2b have a high percentage of ‘people’, but N2a has an absolute percentage of ‘object’ in V2. V0(no semantic roles are assigned) mainly modifies other nouns.