Abstract
From a macro-level viewpoint, a dictionary is indeed a lexical corpus. 漢語大詞典(Han Yu Da Ci Dian, or literally the Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Words), as a summary of ancient and modern vocabulary, provides abundant information with respect to its construction of entry. Based on the classification of entry’s emerging year in it, the information of new-created words in different periods is obtained to analyze the development of Chinese vocabulary system. Thus the quantitative trend of polysyllablization in different periods is revealed, which demonstrate a novel perspective of Chinese historical lexicology as a study case. The lexical evidence for the periodization of the historical Chinese language is also discussed.
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Qiu, B. (2016). Dictionary as Corpus: A Study Case to Reveal the Statistical Trend of Polysyllablization of Chinese Vocabulary. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_30
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