Nouns in the <i>Be of N</i>-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

Wiliński, Jarosław

doi:10.2478/slgr-2021-0045

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“…Attraction is expected to measure the degree to which the What be ADJ be construction attracts a particular adjective, while reliance is intended to quantify the degree to which an adjective appears in the construction in question versus other patterns or contexts in the corpus (cf. Wiliński 2021). Although the method requires quantification and statistical evaluation, the quantitative findings are assessed qualitatively and subjectively.…”

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What-clefts with adjectives in English: A corpus-based analysis

Wiliński

2022

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This paper aims to investigate the what-cleft construction with adjectives and establish its structural, semantic, and distributional features by adopting frame semantics and usage-based construction grammar, exploiting the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and applying quantitative corpus-based methodology. To this end, the author extracts the occurrences of the What be ADJ be-construction from a large corpus of naturally-occurring data, determines its structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-functional properties, and identifies adjectives that are strongly associated with the construction in question. The paper makes a significant contribution to a growing body of literature on the what-cleft construction by conducting a qualitative and quantitative analysis of one of its variants, a grammatical pattern with adjectives that has not been hitherto investigated in much detail.

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What-clefts with adjectives in English: A corpus-based analysis

Wiliński

2022

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Unveiling semantic complexity of the lexeme ‘reputation’: Corpus analysis

Ivanova,

Medvedeva

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Primarily considered as a form of socially transmitted self-representation, reputation is one of the key concepts in public communication which makes it a worthwhile object for linguistic analysis. The present research is aimed at unveiling the semantic complexity of the lexeme ‘reputation’ by examining its immediate environment in COCA. The study showcases how the closest lexical context enhances the meaning of the lexeme. The sampling under analysis consists of 98 most frequent collocations with adjectives (4,088 tokens) and 57 collocations with verbs (6,190 tokens). The methods of the study include contextual analysis, semantic clusterisation and collostructional analysis based on statistical measure of log-likelihood. As a result, 7 semantic clusters of ‘adjective reputation’ and 8 clusters of ‘verb reputation’ have been obtained. The research proves that discoursewise, the collocations with the lexeme ‘reputation’ are found in newspaper, magazine, blog and web-general sections of COCA. The analysis reveals that in English, reputation is metaphorically represented as a building, a piece of fabric and as a valuable object made of precious metal, where it inherits the properties of tangible objects. A good reputation is earned over time by hard work and, once established, requires monitoring and maintenance. If damaged, it is not thrown away but is to be restored. Metonymically, reputation adopts the qualities of its proprietor (‘notorious reputation’, ‘unfortunate reputation’). The paper contributes to the theory of metaphor and could be beneficial for those working within cultural linguistics, lexicography and translation studies. The research may be further extended with corpus-based analysis of semantically close lexemes.

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The ADV speaking-construction in American English: A quantitative corpus-based investigation

Wiliński

2023

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In this article, the author applies the theory of frame semantics, a usage-based model of construction grammar, and quantitative corpus-based methodology to investigate the nature of the ADV speaking-construction in American English, an adverbial participle construction that has not been previously explored using quantitative corpus-based methods. To investigate this construction, the author extracted its occurrences from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), analysed its structural, semantic, distributional and discourse-functional properties, and identified adverbs that frequently appear in the construction. The investigation reveals that the construction tends to combine with speech-functional adverbs, which evoke different semantic frames. It commonly occurs in spoken and written registers and serves various functions in discourse. In particular, it is used frequently in spoken discourse and academic prose to comment on the manner of conveying a message and to express speakers’ stances and attitudes toward various topics.

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Nouns in the Be of N-Construction: A Corpus-Based Investigation

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What-clefts with adjectives in English: A corpus-based analysis

What-clefts with adjectives in English: A corpus-based analysis

Unveiling semantic complexity of the lexeme ‘reputation’: Corpus analysis

The ADV speaking-construction in American English: A quantitative corpus-based investigation

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