Prof. WONG Kin Yuen2017-07-272017-07-272015-04-09In Proceedings of First International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies, ICLLS 2015 (p. 1-12).http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/4273http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/2b7f97_7ff850f68c68469bb7943b3054af7ffe.pdfRamifications of the Chinese yin-yang 陰陽 assemblage reach far beyond its original scopes of reference in the ancient Yijing 《易經》. On top of its purviews over epistemology, ontology, aesthetics and social orders, the yin-yang emblem also takes into account matters such as bodies, sexes, cultural qualities and territories of all kinds. This paper argues that the yin-yang can be pertinent to an analysis of a unique linguistic form of Chinese expression known as "compound noun-phrases" fu-he-ci 複合詞....enConference Paper