In this paper I examine the phantom category of semantic compounds in the context of statements in recently published scholarly articles concerning the formation of Chinese characters and their arrangement into networks.
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The latest article I've uploaded takes issue with Mark Liberman's rejection of the ideographic nature of the Chinese writing system.
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Yesterday I uploaded a second brief article concerning the ideographic nature of Chinese characters that derive from pictographs. The article can be found here or here. If describing pictographs as being ideographic sounds paradoxical, the article will clear things up.
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Chinese characters are ideographic, but not ideographs.
"... the notion of concepts pervading the characters is something the adherents of the Critique of the Ideographic Myth cannot acknowledge, for the Critique would collapse immediately. And that is why they have so little to offer when it comes to interpreting Chinese characters."
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