Usefulness of English Corpora Regarding Encyclopedic Meaning of Grammatical Constructions: Count Noun Vs. Non-Count Noun, Noun Vs. Verb

• Authors: Dorota Chłopek

Title variants

PL

Użyteczność angielskich korpusów w odniesieniu do encyklopedycznego znaczenia konstrukcji gramatycznych: rzeczownik policzalny vs. niepoliczalny, rzeczownik vs. czasownik

Abstracts

EN

The article attempts to demonstrate how concordance lines of a linguistic corpus can be useful in assignments on the descriptive grammar of english, which are administered on-line via the Ms Teams application of teaching and learning due to the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic. Grammatical expressions are approached as constructions abstracted from situated instances of language use in view of Langacker’s “symbolic principle”, which is consistent with the “usage-based principle” and the encyclopedic nature of meaning. Accordingly, words are points of access to extensive depositories of knowledge. Linguistic corpora can provide vast repositories of patterns of use of particular key words constituting various linguistic constructions. The paper focuses on distinguishing between English count nouns and mass nouns represented by the same lexical form, called a “target”, such as worry, dinner, and work, and exposes worry and work as verbs in alternative contexts of use cited from concordance lines of the BNC. The term work is also shown as a key word whose lexical category, noun or verb, is determined on the basis of other elements, referred to as “triggers” in the context of occurrence.

Keywords

EN

linguistic construction; corpus; concordances; grammar; encyclopedic meaning; “trigger”; “target”

PL

konstrukcja językowa; korpus; konkordancje; gramatyka; forma „docelowa”; element „zapalnik”; znaczenie encyklopedyczne

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-176

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Dorota Chłopek

• Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej

Identifiers

DOI

10.53052/17313317.2022.11

Biblioteka Nauki

29520287