Basis Of Corpus Research Articles

HYPERBOLE IN CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Classical Chinese poetry is a microcosm of the history of Chinese civilization, and plays a vital role in the process of communication and mutual learning between Chinese and Western poetics, historiography and civilization. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device with rich expressive power. In the process of poetry creation, poets often use the technique of numeral hyperbole to describe events, portray scenery, express emotions and aspirations, and achieve superb artistic effects. This paper expounds the artistic value of hyperbole in classical Chinese poetry, and summarizes three translation strategies of numeral hyperbole in the translation of classical poetry on the basis of corpus and literature analysis.

A Grammatical Study of ABAB Reduplicative Speech Act Verbs with Politeness Meaning

Taking “congratulations, congratulations” and “come on, come on” as examples, this paper analyzes their syntactic components, semantic features, pragmatic functions, and special phenomena on the basis of corpus under the guidance of frame semantics theory and interactive subjectivity theory. ABAB reduplicated speech act verbs mostly act as independent predicates in sentences, which is mainly caused by imperative sentences and repeated emotional output of the speaker. This kind of verb has a wide range and colorful semantic characteristics, which is related to the pragmatic functions of forming different emotional colors under a specific cognitive framework.

Development of students’ collocational competence based on corpora

Introduction. The development of students’ collocational competence is one of the main goals of foreign language teaching in a linguistic university. Achieving this goal is possible through the use of corpora. However, the implementation of the methods for the development of students’ collocational competence based on corpora requires the selection of teaching content and the development of learning stages that combine classroom and distant, online and offline learning forms and allow students to work independently with the data of linguistic corpora. The purpose of the study is to develop methods for the development of students’ collocational competence based on corpora. Materials and methods. The study involved 2nd year students (N=44) studying “Linguistics” (profile: “Theory and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures”) and “Pedagogical Education” (profile: “English Language”) programmes at Derzhavin Tambov State University (Russian Federation). In order to test the methods effectiveness for the experimental group, a selection of collocations was carried out and a hybrid learning methods was developed, which includes project activities (classroom and distant) and consists of three stages. Participants in the control group studied a practical English course using traditional printed teaching aids. The subject of control was students’ collocational competence. To process the obtained results, Student’s t-test was used. Research results. The study shows that both teaching methods are quite effective for the development of collocational competence of linguistic university students (control group: t = 12.82, p ≤ 0.005; experimental group: t = 15.64, p ≤ 0.005). At the same time, statistical processing of data when comparing the results of the experimental cut between the control and experimental groups proved the effectiveness of the author’s methods of teaching collocations based on corpora (t = 2.54, p ≤ 0.005). Conclusion. The novelty of the study lies in the formulation of methods for the development of students’ collocational competence based on corpora, which consist of three stages and includes classroom and distant, online and offline forms of education. The results obtained can be used in the development of methods for a foreign language teaching in general and lexical competence in particular on the basis of corpora, as well as in the development of methods for foreign language teaching based on other modern ICTs.

When the present lies in the past: [Present under Past] in subjunctive clauses in Uruguayan Spanish

On the basis of corpus and experimental evidence, this paper claims that the ongoing process of change affecting the use and interpretation of the [Present under Past] pattern in subjunctive argument clauses in some Spanish varieties is sensitive to the syntactic/semantic type of the clause. The pattern deviates from Sequence-of-Tense grammar in not giving rise to double access effects. In the variety explored in this paper, this only happens in the argument clauses of causative, directive, and volitional predicates, i.e. in a type of clause which is held to be lower in a scale of clausehood than the argument clauses of predicates of belief and assertion.@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent:"";margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;}div.Section1{page:Section1;}

On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan

The literature on resumptive pronouns (RPs) has given rise to a rich taxonomy of the phenomenon. Despite the fact that RPs invariably have the morphosyntactic form of ordinary pronouns, they vary widely in distribution and function. In some languages, RPs are grammatically licensed; depending on the language and the syntactic context, they might or might not realize traces, compete with gaps, exhibit reconstruction effects, and so on. In other languages, notably English, RPs are ‘intrusive’ (Sells 1984). Kroch (1981), Asudeh (2004), Morgan and Wagers (2018), and others have proposed that intrusive RPs in English are ungrammatical products of the performance system—productions that satisfy local well-formedness but not global well-formedness. This account predicts that in every language, regardless of whether it has grammatically licensed RPs, intrusive RPs could also be found. Here we test this prediction against evidence from Chamorro and Palauan. Previous accounts have maintained that Chamorro does not have RPs and Palauan has only RPs. On the basis of corpus and elicited production data from Chamorro, and a re-examination of the Palauan evidence, we argue that both languages have grammatically licensed RPs, as well as intrusive RPs. Their grammatically licensed RPs differ in form and distribution. At least in Chamorro, the distribution of intrusive RPs produced is similar to that in English.

Le futur antérieur périphrastique

Contrairement à la concurrence entre futur simple (il pleuvra) et futur périphrastique (il va pleuvoir) , la paire analytique parallèle incluant le futur antérieur (il aura plu) et la forme périphrastique correspondante (il va avoir plu) a été largement ignorée par les linguistes. Le présent article contribue à combler ce déficit et poursuit un double objectif. Premièrement, nous offrirons une description des valeurs en langue du futur antérieur (FA) et de son pendant périphrastique (FAP) basée sur une révision de Azzopardi & Bres (2017). Deuxièmement, sur la base de corpus, nous fournirons un aperçu qualitatif et quantitatif de l’actualisation en discours des deux formes. Nous conclurons que le FAP ne concurrence réellement le FA que dans une de ses trois configurations, même s’il est favorisé dans certains cotextes (procès téliques, indications temporelles) et contextes (écrit électronique, français d’Amérique du nord).

From ad hoc category to ad hoc categorization: The proceduralization of Argentinian Spanishtipo

AbstractTaxonomic nouns such as Spanishtipoappear in constructions that create ad hoc categories, typically in scientific and academic contexts. Some of them develop further uses, notably an adverbial use as an approximator or hedge, as a result of a reduction of the original construction. The aim of this contribution is to trace the origins of constructions that establish ad hoc categories in the case of Spanishtipo, and in particular the role of genitival constructions and apposition in technological, scientific and generally academic texts in the nineteenth century on the basis of corpora. I will further study the subsequent rise of the adverbial approximating functions used for ad hoc categorization and related pragmatic functions such as the use oftipoas a quotative marker in Argentinian youth language. On this basis, two broader issues will be discussed: (i) the relation between ad hoc categories and ad hoc categorization and a possibly different status of ad hoc categories and ad hoc categorization due to proceduralization; and (ii) the striking parallels with cognates from certain Romance languages (Portuguese and Italian) and from Russian and Swedish, as well as the question of whether there has been a parallel, independent development—and if so, why—or whether contact phenomena explain these similarities.

Historical development of labile verbs in modern Russian

AbstractThe article deals with the phenomenon of lability (ambitransitivity), in other words, the ability of a verb to be either transitive or intransitive. I analyze the historical development of verbs which are currently labile in modern Russian. The main group of Russian labile verbs includes verbs of motion. On the basis of corpus and dictionary data, I conclude that the behavior of the lexemes under analysis is far from being uniform. However, interestingly, for most of them, e.g.,In the cases when the intransitive use becomes more frequent, the semantic change matches the statistical one. In the beginning, verbs of this subtype were only used intransitively in a restricted type of contexts (e.g., for

Recent developments in corpus linguistics and corpus-based research / Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education

Corpus linguistics has transformed the landscape of empirical research on languages in recent decades. The proliferation of corpus technology has enabled researchers worldwide to conduct research in their own geographical locations with few hindrances. It has become increasingly commonplace for researchers to compile their own corpora for specific research questions or to conduct research on the basis of corpora constructed by other researchers. Moreover, corpus linguistics has become accessible to language teachers, providing ideas, instructions and new opportunities to apply corpus techniques, corpus-based materials and activities in their classrooms (e.g., Bennett 2010; Reppen 2010; Scheffler 2011).

Usage-Based Models of Language (review)

Reviewed by: Usage-based models of language ed. by Michael Barlow, Suzanne Kemmer Jean-Christophe Verstraete Usage-based models of language. Ed. by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 356. ISBN 1575862204. $22.95. Usage-based models of language provides an overview of recent work in linguistics that takes usage data seriously in modeling and theory formation, regarding language use not just as an instantiation of more abstract structures, but as a driving force that shapes and changes these structures. The editors’ introduction to the volume is a useful discussion of [End Page 875] some basic theoretical and methodological issues in usage-based approaches to language, such as the importance of patterns of frequency and variation in language change, the role of cognitive mechanisms as functional constraints on language structure, and the importance of contextual and cultural factors. The other papers in the volume elaborate specific aspects of usage-based approaches, ranging from highly programmatic papers that discuss what a linguistic model should look like if it takes usage data seriously, over psycholinguistic and computational experiments relating to the cognitive aspects of a usage-based approach, to data-intensive papers that show what it actually means to implement such an approach in linguistic description. The papers by Ronald Langacker and Sydney Lamb are the most programmatic ones in the volume: Langacker discusses why and how his model of ‘cognitive grammar’ is usage-based, and Lamb examines the theoretical and methodological prerequisites for network models of language. The articles by Brian MacWhinney and by Connie Dickinson and Talmy Givón both report on experiments that investigate the neural and cognitive aspects of usage-based models. MacWhinney provides an interesting overview of his work on connectionist modeling of language learning and acquisition, and Dickinson and Givón investigate the relationship between conversational interaction and the storage of information in episodic memory. The five other papers illustrate the implementation of a usage-based approach with data from different linguistic domains. Joan Bybee looks at phonetic variation relating to t/d deletion in Chicano English, showing that it is not distributed evenly over the lexicon and that it varies with the frequency of lexical items, and investigating the implications of these observations for phonological theory. Mira Ariel contrasts NP detachment and accessibility theory as two alternative explanations for the development of agreement markers from pronouns, and shows how synchronic patterns of usage in a corpus of Modern Hebrew can be used as evidence for the explanatory adequacy of accessibility theory. Arie Verhagen investigates the diachrony of causative constructions in Dutch, and argues that changes in the relative frequency of the two basic causative verbs laten and doen can be related to changes in cultural conceptions of authority. Douglas Biber illustrates how corpora can be used to study patterns of association between various linguistic features on different levels, and between linguistic and nonlinguistic features. Michael Barlow, finally, studies grammatical variation in collocations on the basis of corpora and provides an explanation in terms of blending theory. Taken together, the articles in this volume form a welcome introduction to usage-based models of language, with convincing arguments for the importance of taking usage data seriously, and interesting implementations of usage-based approaches on different linguistic levels. Jean-Christophe Verstraete University of Leuven Copyright © 2004 Linguistic Society of America