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

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Chłopek D.

Świat i Słowo

2022

vol. 38

issue 1

159-176

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.

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