量词“波”用法变异的社会因素
Social Factors Causing the Usage Variation of Quantifier “Bo”

“波”最初用为临时量词，仅修饰与水有关的事物。通过隐喻，“波”可以修饰与水波相似的事物。使用频率的增加减弱了其隐喻意义，其修饰范围进一步扩展到所有具有动态性和批量意义的事物，与“拨”的用法出现重叠。“波”以其初始意义而显得更加生动，在使用者的选择、拼音输入法的促进下，“波”逐渐替代“拨”。“波”又在一定条件下被重新分析为动量词，因而与之搭配的名词范围进一步扩展到专有名词、代词等。随后，动词范围也进一步扩展，形成了“走一波”等固定短语。
Word Bo (波) was used to be used as a quantifier casually, especially for nouns about water. As a metaphor, Bo (波) could be used for other things like wave. With the higher frequency, its meta-phor meaning was gradually comprehended as a inherent meaning, and the range of nouns coex-isting with Bo (波) expanded to almost all moved things and a batch of things, overlapping with the usage of Bo (拨). Bo (波) is more vivid because of its original meaning. With the promotion of the user' s choice and pinyin input method, Bo (拨) was gradually replaced by Bo (波). Bo (波) is reanalyzed as a verbal quantifier under certain conditions, so the range of nouns collocated with it is further extended to proper nouns, pronouns and so on. With the expanding of range of verbs with Bo (波), there are some fixed structures like Zou yi bo (走一波).