Synergetic Studies on Some Properties of Lexical Structures in Chinese

Abstract This paper reports on a test of some aspects of the synergetic-linguistic model on data from Chinese. The lexical model, which is based on word length, polysemy, frequency and polytextuality, is confronted with data from the People’s Daily news corpus. The results of this study demonstrate once more the cross-linguistic validity of the model with respect to a highly analytic language.