周俊勋
There are two ways of expressing the concept of {dawn} in Chinese: the visual system and the spatial and temporal system. The visual system is mainly represented by the imagery of Chinese characters or be biphonized by juxtaposition and compounding. The category members of the spatial-temporal system can be classified into the three series of negativity, proximity and attainment. The word 黎明 (límíng) is a member of the attainment series in the spatial-temporal system, and its lexical pattern is "verb of terminality + word of point-of-time " The forms of邌 (lí)and 遲(zhì) were phonetic loan characters for the word 逮(dài), which means "to approach", often occurring as components of the words 邌明 and 遲明, which were later shortened as 黎明 around the period of the Jin Dynasty. The lexicalization of 黎明 was caused by the abridgement of the structure of the topic.