Phraseology in the language, in the dictionary, and in the computer

Mel’čuk, Igor

doi:10.1515/phras-2012-0003

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“…That is precisely the relation that holds between the members of a collocation: One, the base , is selected freely to convey a certain meaning. However, the choice of the other, the collocate , is contingent on the lexical identity of the predicate noun (see, e.g., Mel'čuk, , p. 39). Thus, if a speaker of Spanish wants to express the idea of ‘performing a conversation,’ he will choose the noun conversación and the verb tener , rather than hacer , which can also convey the idea of ‘performing an activity’ in the context of other nouns (e.g., hacer una llamada ‘to make a phone call’).…”

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Error Analysis of Support Verb Constructions in Written Spanish Learner Corpora

Salido

2016

The Modern Language Journal

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This article studies the use of support verb constructions (SVCs) in the written production of learners of Spanish. SVCs are lexical combinations whose content is similar to verbal predicates but is distributed between a verb and a noun, the noun being the carrier of the core lexical meaning of the predicate. Although there is considerable agreement on the importance of these constructions in the learning process, their use in the production of learners of Spanish has so far attracted little attention. This study examines the difficulties posed to learners by this construction by means of a qualitative analysis of the errors registered in 3 samples consisting of essays by learners with 3 different mother tongues (English, Swedish, and Japanese). It focuses on 3 types of error, 2 of which—the support verb choice and the determiner choice—seem to be especially problematic due to the unpredictability of the units involved. The third type—using an SVC instead of a more idiomatic 1‐word verb—is regularly found only in the samples of the Japanese speakers, which suggests the influence of a particular mother tongue in its production.

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“…For some researchers, one of the characteristic features of collocates is the unpredictability of their choice, that is, the fact that they cannot be substituted by any LUs with a similar meaning, their presence being determined by the lexical identity of the base (Mel’čuk, , p. 39; Nesselhauf, , pp. 224ff).…”

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Error Analysis of Support Verb Constructions in Written Spanish Learner Corpora

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2016

The Modern Language Journal

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“…Besides vocabulary and pronunciation, phrasing is another critical area posing threat for comprehension. A phraseological expression, also called a set expression, set phrase, idiomatic phrase, multi-word expression, sometimes simply idiom, etc., is, first of all, a (multiword) phrasethat is, a linguistic expression formed by several (at least two) lexemes syntactically linked in a regular way (Mel'čuk, 2012). It has been observed that choosing an appropriate idiom poses difficulty for foreign language learners.…”

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FACEBOOK AND STUDENTSâ€™ SUB-STANDARD ENGLISH: A CONTEXT OF BANGLADESH

Islam

2018

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In the 21 st century, one of the most frequently used social media is Facebook (FB). This paper is going to focus on the two sides of the same issue. Firstly, the present scenario of Facebook effects on students. During teaching English in a foreign language context for almost a decade, it has been observed that the errors students make in their writing are influenced by many factors, among which the students' Facebook register and rhetoric is one of them. Secondly, this study is going to deal with the other issue that many second language/ foreign language learners have taken Facebook as a means to improve their English language skills. Lastly, the study proposes how Facebook practicing could be used as an English language teaching and learning tool, especially in Bangladesh, where English language enjoys the status of a foreign language. The paper is based on the qualitative analysis of the observations and comments of students collected through purposefully designed writing tasks assigned to students of a few selected classes of 'Basic English' and 'Composition and Communication Skills' courses of English Department in a top ranking private university located in the capital city of Bangladesh.

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“…Las colocaciones fueron identificadas manualmente por tres hablantes nativos que anotaron el corpus siguiendo los criterios de la lexicología explicativa y combinatoria (véase Mel'čuk y otros, 1995). Para esta corriente, una colocación es una combinación de unidades léxicas no libre, puesto que solo uno de los elementos, la base, se elige exclusivamente por su significado, mientras que la selección del otro, el colocativo, está condicionada por la identidad léxica del primero (Mel'čuk, 2012). Así se explica que nombres de una semántica similar, como paseo o excursión, que denotan ambos un tipo de 'desplazamiento con fines recreativos', impongan una selección diferente de verbos (dar un paseo, hacer una excursión).…”

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Frecuencia y corrección colocacional en la producción escrita de aprendices de español

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2017

Onomázein

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ONOMÁZEIN 38 (diciembre de 2017): 22 -46 Marcos García Salido Frecuencia y corrección colocacional en la producción escrita de aprendices de español 23 El objetivo del presente trabajo es determinar si existe alguna relación entre la corrección de las colocaciones producidas por aprendices de español en textos escritos y la asociación que sus miembros presentan en un corpus representativo de esta lengua. Para ello se partirá de una muestra de colocaciones extraídas de un corpus de aprendices, las que han sido identificadas desde presupuestos fraseológicos, y se estudiará su frecuencia en un corpus representativo del español. A partir de estos datos, se comprobará si existe alguna relación entre la asociación de los miembros de una colocación en términos de frecuencia de coaparición e información mutua y la probabilidad con la que aparece producida correctamente en los textos de aprendices. ResumenPalabras clave: aprendizaje de español; léxico; colocaciones; frecuencia; información mutua.This study aims to establish whether there is any relation between the correctness of collocations present in the writings of learners of Spanish and the association their members display in a representative corpus of this language. In order to do that, starting from a sample of collocations extracted from a learner corpus where they have previously been identified by means of phraseological criteria, I study their frequency in a representative corpus of Spanish. Based on these data, I try to establish if the association between the constituents of a collocation, as measured in terms of frequency of co-occurrence and mutual information, has any influence on the probability wherewith learners produce such collocation correctly. AbstractKeywords: learning of Spanish; vocabulary; collocations; frequency; mutual information. ONOMÁZEIN 38 (diciembre de 2017): 22 -46 Marcos García Salido Frecuencia y corrección colocacional en la producción escrita de aprendices de español

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Phraseology in the language, in the dictionary, and in the computer

Cited by 63 publications

References 13 publications

Error Analysis of Support Verb Constructions in Written Spanish Learner Corpora

Error Analysis of Support Verb Constructions in Written Spanish Learner Corpora

FACEBOOK AND STUDENTSâ€™ SUB-STANDARD ENGLISH: A CONTEXT OF BANGLADESH

Frecuencia y corrección colocacional en la producción escrita de aprendices de español

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