Conditional clauses in novice academic English: A comparison of Norwegian learners and native speakers

Hasselgård, Hilde

doi:10.35360/njes.364

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“…Most of unless clauses occur in [q, unless p] order (final position), the p and q clauses are separated by a comma. A similar result asserted by Hasselgård (2016) who analyzes material from the Varieties of English for Specific Purposes data base (VESPA), representing Norwegian advanced learners of English, and the British Academic Written English corpus (BAWE), representing English L1 students in British universities. Hasselgård argues that unless clauses occur only in [q, unless p] order.…”

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An exceptive account of unless clauses: corpus-evidence

Ahmad

2021

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This paper provides a corpus evidence to prove that unless clauses act like exceptive constructions (ECs). Adopting Galal et al (2019) categorization of ECs: paradigmatic ECs (connected/regular exceptive) and hypotactic ECs (free exceptives). The current analysis tries to apply this classification on unless clause to examine its behavior. Corpus evidence shows that unless clauses always display a fixed position in relation to its antecedent just like paradigmatic ECs, however the two constructions differ in that: unless occurs before the antecedent regardless the position of the consequence ( q statement), whereas paradigmatic ECs occur after the antecedent. In addition to that, unless allows universal and non-universal quantifiers, but universal quantifiers are more commonly used. Regarding coordinating sequences, unless accepts coordinating like hypotactic ECs. Some statistical analyses of use of unless conditionals in two native corpora: Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA) and the British National Corpus (BNC), are presented showing that unless is more commonly used in BNC assuming that it is a characteristic of British English. Results demonstrated that this construction is more frequently used in the written proportions of COCA, whereas they are more commonly used in the spoken proportion of BNC.

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An exceptive account of unless clauses: corpus-evidence

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2021

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“…Learners are found to struggle with the complex grammatical and lexical patterning of common words such as delexical verbs (Altenberg and Granger, 2001;Wang, 2016), and to produce a smaller set of less restricted, less salient collocations than native speakers (Granger, 1998;Källkvist, 1998). These collocations have memorably been referred to as learners' phrasal or phraseological "teddy bears" (Ellis 2012;Hasselgård 2019), extending Hasselgren's (1994) notion of lexical teddy bears. Using similar methods, Durrant and Schmitt (2009) and Granger and Bestgen (2014) try to disentangle the effects of frequency and salience.…”

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Comparing collocations in translated and learner language

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Bernardini

2023

IJLCR

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This paper compares use of collocations by Italian learners writing in and translating into English, conceptualising the two tasks as different modes of constrained language production and adopting Halverson’s (2017) revised Gravitational Pull Hypothesis as a theoretical model. A particular focus is placed on identifying a method for comparing datasets containing translations and essays, assembled opportunistically and varying in size and structure. The study shows that lexical association scores for dependency-defined word pairs are significantly higher in translations than essays. A qualitative analysis of a subset of collocations shared and unique to either mode shows that the former set features more collocations with direct cross-linguistic links (connectivity), and that the source/first language seems to affect both modes similarly. We tentatively conclude that second/target language salience effects are more visible in translation than second language use, while connectivity and source language salience affect both modes of bilingual processing similarly, regardless of the mediation variable.

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A novel multidimensional analysis of writing styles of editorials from China Daily and The New York Times

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Ren

2020

Lingua

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Conditional clauses in novice academic English: A comparison of Norwegian learners and native speakers

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

An exceptive account of unless clauses: corpus-evidence

An exceptive account of unless clauses: corpus-evidence

Comparing collocations in translated and learner language

A novel multidimensional analysis of writing styles of editorials from China Daily and The New York Times

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