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LEXICAL COMBINABILITY OF ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS EXPRESSING ELEMENTS OF APPRAISAL
Corresponding Author(s) : Stanislav S. Bulgakov
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 7 No. 6 (2019): November
Abstract
Purposes: The present article aims to examine and analyze the nature of lexical combinability in the English language, namely collocates expressing elements of appraisal found in authentic online news articles.
Methodology: The article is based on the analysis of dozens of online news articles as they contain a plethora of adjective + noun collocates denoting elements of the appraisal.
Results: The phenomenon under study is attracting considerable interest due to its relevance in modern linguistics and practical day-to-day use. Despite this interest, many hypotheses regarding lexical combinability appear to be disputable and, in a way, ill-defined which makes further research well-founded.
Implications/Applications: As a matter of fact, combinatory linguistics has always paid special attention to adjectives expressing elements of appraisal as appraisal itself belongs to, on the one hand, much-discussed, but on the other hand, quite an intricate subject matter. The appraisal is indeed bound to be a multi-purpose linguistic category that has been scrutinized by numerous scholars in the field of philosophy, axiology, aesthetics, etc.
Novelty/Originality: It should be noted, that there are various viewpoints regarding the structure and means of representing attitudinal meaning and their tendency to combine with certain words the novelty of current work is paying to adjectives and nouns.
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Cowie, A. P. (1991). Multiword units in newspaper language. Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 17(1-3), 101-106. https://doi.org/10.2143/CILL.17.1.2016699 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/CILL.17.1.2016699
Dobrovolskij, D. O. (2005). Semantic motivation of Lexical Functions and its limits (The combinatorial profile of the Russian degree modifier ÄrezvyÄajno). In East West encounter: Second international conference on Meaning-Text Theory (pp. 110-121).
Fellbaum, C. (Ed.). (2007). Idioms and collocations: Corpus-based linguistic and lexicographic studies. London: Continuum.
Hoey, M. (2012). Lexical priming: A new theory of words and language. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203327630 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203327630
Howarth, P. (1998). The phraseology of learners’ academic writing. In A. P. Cowie (Ed.), Phraseology: Theory, analysis and applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 161–186.
Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford University Press.
Stubbs, M. (2001). Words and phrases: Corpus studies of lexical semantics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Yorio, C. A. (1989). Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency. Bilingualism across the lifespan, 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611780.005 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611780.005
Wajszczuk, J. (2010). Functional class (so called" part of speech") assignment as a kind of meaning-bound word syntactic information. Cognitive Studies| Études cognitives, (10), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.11649/cs.2010.001 DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/cs.2010.001
Goddard, C., Taboada, M., & Trnavac, R. (2019). The semantics of evaluational adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Appraisal. Functions of Language, 26(3), 308-342. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00029.god DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00029.god
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Haig, G. (2006). Word-class distinctions and morphological type: agglutinating and fusional languages reconsidered. In Kiel: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität (Unpubl. ms.).
Карамишева, І. Д. (2008). КонтраÑтивна граматика англійÑької та українÑької мов.[англ./укр.]: Ðавчальний поÑібник. Ðова Книга.
Schoorlemmer, M., Tenev, I., Valdivia, G. D., CastellvÃ, J., Taulé, M., & Zubizarreta, M. L. 72. Quality nouns.
Kolbusz-Buda, J. (2014, November). Towards a left-branching structure of synthetic compound nouns in Polish and English. In Book of Abstracts (p. 58). Polish Academy of Sciences.
Yang, D. Y., Tyurin, A. Y., Mikhaylov, M. B., Danielyan, T. V., & Lokotilova, O. V. (2015). U.S. Patent Application No. 14/509,311. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.4.1-2.9-28
Katupha, J. M. (1991). The grammar of Emakhuwa verbal extensions: An investigation of the role of extension morphemes in derivational verbal morphology and in grammatical relations (Doctoral dissertation, SOAS University of London).
Gabrovšek, D. (2007). Connotation, semantic prosody, syntagmatic associative meaning: three levels of meaning?. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 4(1-2), 9-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.4.1-2.9-28
BROCCIAS, C. Marcella Bertuccelli Papi, ed. 2005. Studies in the semantics of lexical combinatory patterns. Pisa: Edizioni Plus–Pisa University Press. Pp. 540. ISBN 8884922364.
Sheffield, A. D. (1912). Grammar and thinking.