A Comparative Study of the Semantic Motivation of Chinese and Spanish Compound Words

Based on the comparison between Chinese and Spanish compound words, this paper tries to summarize the differences in the internal structure of these two languages, the productivity distribution of the lexical sequences of each structure and the metonymy, metaphor, metonymy metaphor reflected in the semantic motivation. This paper also digs into the similarities and differences of the word-formation thinking behind these two languages in order to put forward the corresponding suggestions for the teaching of Spanish compound words and effectively avoid the negative transfer of language.