An investigation of the distribution of meaning items and errors of commonly used polysemes found in the Chinese Interlanguage Corpus
Na Fu · Shijie hanyu jiaoxue · 2007
118 commonly used polysemes are chosen from the Chinese Interlanguage Corpus developed by Beijing Language and Culture University and the distribution of their meaning items in both interlanguage and standard modern Chinese was studied. It is found that the meaning items of most of the polysemes have the same frequency. However, some high-frequency items and low-frequency items of some polysemes in interlanguage are not in accord with those in standard Chinese due to the limited Chinese level of the second language learners, the special study and living environment and content of writings. It is also found that there are certain tendencies for different items of a word by analyzing the usage of polysemes in interlanguage. To reduce errors, close attention should be paid to distinguish different type of errors related to the meaning items of polysemes in teaching.