The role of antonymous morphemes in word formation of the modern Chinese language

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the role of antonymous morphemes in the formation of two-syllable words of modern Chinese. As an introduction to the problem, the specificity of the word level in modern Chinese is considered in comparison with European languages, also a brief description of the antonyms as a special class of vocabulary is given. The role of antonymous morphemes in word formation of modern Chinese is analyzed through the consideration of the syntactic relations between two morphemes in the compound word, of the part-of-speech characteristics of the morphemes and the compound word, and of the contribution of the antonymous morphemes to the semantics of the compound word.