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Chinese words with variant forms are synonymous words with same written forms. They’re important objects of language planning. In this article, the diachronic use of Chinese words with variant forms involved in the Consolidated Table of the First Batch of Chinese Words with Variant Forms and the Consolidated Table of the First Batch of Chinese Words with Variant Forms (Draft) is studied using long-time span diachronic corpus and diachronic retrieval systems, and such words are categorized by their diachronic trends. Based on this method, the effectiveness of artificial regulations on Chinese words with variant forms exhibiting different trends in usage is analyzed. The analytical data show that the consolidation and standardization of Chinese words with variant forms were effectively implemented in the language situation of 2002 and 2003 and had a positive significance.
The present study is jointly funded by the Natural Science Fund of China(61300081, 61170162), the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (2015AA015409), 863 Program (SQ2015AA0100074), and the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences(12&ZD173) and Social Science Fund of China “Chinese Chunk Bank Construction and Application Research”.
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Rao, G., Dai, M., Xun, E. (2016). Study on the Effectiveness of the Regulations for Chinese Words with Variant Forms Based on a Long-Span Diachronic Corpus. 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_67
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