Quantitative Research on the Origins of Contemporary Chinese Vocabulary Based on The Great Chinese Dictionary

摘要：

　　The evolution of the Chinese vocabulary is one of the indispensable parts of the research on the history of the Chinese language,and is the basis of clarifying the origins of contemporary Chinese vocabulary.For lack of the high-quality and large-scale diachronic corpus,the overall evolutionary process of the Chinese vocabulary is hard to demonstrate and the quantitative-analytical description of the Chinese lexical evolution still remains a problem.The Great Chinese Dictionary records over 490,000 senses of both ancient and contemporary words.By manually labeling the historical period of the example sentences for every sense in the dictionary,a diachronic Chinese lexical database was built.Then we probed into the distributions of the number and word length of contemporary vocabulary in each historical period.Eventually,we estimated the correlation between the number of words and their age by regression analysis.

关键词： The Great Chinese Dictionary Contemporary vocabulary Quantitative analysis Glottochronology

作者: Xueyang Liu Bin Li Yingjie Zhang Liu Liu

作者单位: School of Chinese Language and Literature,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210097,China School of Chinese Language and Literature,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210097,China;State Key L State Key Lab for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 澳门

会议语种:英文

页码: 112-123

在线出版日期: 2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）