ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a number of important areas that relevant to the study of style and lends more support to the two-dimensional analysis. It suggests that the difference between these two types may be attributed to the degree in which they are integrated into modern written Chinese. Within the individual classical words, it seems that further differentiation is possible, as their distribution is quite dispersed based on the much larger BCC corpus. The classical words seem to fall into two clusters, located on the top and right, to be dubbed 'literary' and 'literate'. Classical POS morphemes are different from the individual function words, which are also dispersed along the two dimensions, with two main clusters in the literate and literary regions. The chapter provides the contrast between monosyllabic POSs and disyllabic POSs. It explains about four character idioms are an important part of the Chinese lexicon and much valued for their cultural currency.
