Closing Words Of Research About "Contemporary Chinese Dictionary"(6th Edition)

The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary(the following referred toas Contemporary Chinese） is a widely specification languagedictionary which is the most scientific, highest authoritative andawareness dictionary. For decades, generations of writers alwaysadhere to the point of view of the development to revise the"Contemporary Chinese Dictionary",constantly leak filling andabsorb new words and meanings to continue to strengthen itsnormative characteristics. This article select the "ContemporaryChinese Dictionary"(6th edition)(the following referred to as "newedition") as the research object, adopt a way by contrastdescription with the5th edition (the following referred to as "oldedition"), take "Contemporary Chinese" old edition"and" newedition"as a range of quantitative research to statistics cited theadjustments of the new words and deletions of words and meaningsin the new edition.From the statistics we can discover the sources of new versionincluded new words as followed as seven components:(1)Mandarin words,(2) borrowed foreign words or transliteration ofthe word,(3) Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Mainland Chinese dialect,(4)abbreviation, collectively, or phrase abbreviated to formnew words,(5) Single entry only with a multi-syllable word,(6)wordsincreased by the new legislation entries,(7)the use of the archaicwords.Included words those reflect the contents involved in manyaspects of economic, social development, environmentalprotection, the change of values and a new lifestyle and livingconcept;From point of view from the syllables, the largest numberare two-syllable words; From point of view in the number ofseparation of meanings,the univocal word as the main part;Frompoint of view from the parts of speech, the the top four proportion isnoun, verb, adjective, adverb; From point of view from wordformation perspective, the compound word is the principal part ofthe new word entries, in which specifically compound.The rulesand characteristics of the development of Contemporary Chinesevocabulary system,that is the double syllable tendency, theabbreviated tendency,the phenomenon of linguistic group andsemantic analogy.The new version of separation of meanings adjustment mainlyrelated to two cases as the increase of the senses and the sense ofdiscrete and combined.Whereby the increase senses is divided intothree aspects to do a classification analysis from notional wordsenses, the virtual word senses items and short phrases senses,mainly to the increase in notional word senses in which howeverfrom the part of speech the noun meanings and verb meaningsincrease is most significant;From senses increased pathwayanalysis point of view, the increase is mainly caused by changes inthe lexical semantic domain; After statistical analysis noted that the increase of the virtual word senses items show thegrammaticalization of content words as a reflection of the syntaxprocess.Senses isolation and combined adjustment is on the basisof a comprehensive analysis of the differences and connections,between the multiple meanings of polysemous entries andhomonyms shaped entry adjustments to ensure the dictionaryconsistent principles and sort merge standard.