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Andreea Rosca
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El uso combinado de tareas colaborativas y cine bélico en la enseñanza del Inglés Militar
2019
espanolTodo curso de idiomas exitoso deberia comenzar con una identificacion de las metas de los alumnos y un analisis de sus necesidades comunicativas presentes o futuras para ayudarles a alcanzar esas metas. En cuanto a la ensenanza de la lengua inglesa en el Centro Universitario de la Defensa, hemos identificado que el libro de texto propone un ingles general y por ello, hemos disenado una programacion personalizada que toma en cuenta las necesidades comunicativas de los cadetes y que a la vez, les permite familiarizarse con el tipo de discurso empleado en el ambito militar. De este modo, nuestra propuesta educativa hace uso predominante del ingles militar combinando el aprendizaje basad…
How an idea germinates into a projext or the intransitive resultative construction with Entity-Specific change-of-state verbs
2014
[EN] This study discusses how seven of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs (i.e. bloom, blossom, flower, germinate, sprout, swell, and blister) are subsumed into the intransitive resultative construction by highlighting and making use of the external and internal constraints proposed by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2007). External constraints refer to cognitive mechanisms such as high-level metaphor and/or metonymy whereas internal constraints are concerned with the encyclopedic and event structure makeup of verbs. The Internal Variable Conditioning constraint is at work when the information encapsulated by a predicate determines the cho…
Hope and equilibrium in the dystopian world of The Hunger Games
2021
This paper provides evidence of the fruitfulness of combining analytical categories from Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis for the analysis of complex literary characterizations. It does so through a detailed study of the “tributes”, i.e. the randomly selected children who have to fight to death in a nationally televised show, in The Hunger Games. The study proves the effectiveness of such categories to provide an analytically accurate picture of the dystopian world depicted in the novel, which is revealed to include a paradoxical element of hope. The type of dehumanization that characterizes the dystopian society of Panem is portrayed through an internally consistent se…
Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of up
2016
The present study focuses on the frequency of phrasal verbs with the particle up in the context of crime and police investigative work. This research emerges from the need to enlarge McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope from purely criminal behavior to police investigative actions. To do so, we relied on a corpus of 504,124 running words made up of spoken dialogues extracted from the script of the American TV series Castle shown on ABC since 2009. Based on Rudzka-Ostyn’s (2003) cognitive motivations for the particle up, we have identified five different meaning extensions for our phrasal verbs. Drawing from these findings, we have designed pedagogical activities for those L2 learners that stu…
Tracking down phrasal verbs: the case of up and down
2016
Since the frequency of phrasal verbs is register-specific, it is essential for L2 learners to be exposed to the most productive phrasal verbs in their field of study. Thus, English for Police learners should become familiar and practise the most recurrent phrasal verbs in the context of crime and police investigative work. In this study we determine the frequency and meaning extensions of phrasal verbs with the particles up and down in a spoken corpus of English for the Police on the basis of which we also generate teaching materials for L2 trainee police officers. This research extends McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope of analysis by encompassing not only phrasal verbs related to criminal…
A lexical-constructional approach to light and sound emission verbs
2011
Este artículo presenta un detallado análisis léxico-construccional de las clases verbales de emisión de luz y sonido (por ej. destellar, retumbar). El presente trabajo estudia la integración de estas clases verbales en la alternancia causativa-incoativa, la construcción resultativa, la construcción intransitiva de movimiento y la construcción conativa. Este estudio se ha llevado a cabo en el marco del Modelo Léxico Construccional (MLC), propuesto por Ruiz de Mendoza y Mairal (2008, 2011). El MLC. El MLC ha desarrollado una serie de restricciones internas y externas que definen las condiciones para la integración léxico-construccional o subsunción. Las restricciones internas están basadas en…
Basics of Ontology modeling in FunGramKB. The case of burn*
2014
El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es doble. En primer lugar, se analizan las ventajas de un enfoque conceptualista para la representación de significado dentro del marco del sistema de procesamiento de lenguaje natural (PLN) denominado FunGramKB (Periñán y Arcas 2004, 2005, 2006; Periñán y Mairal, 2009ab, 2010, entre muchos otros). FunGramKB soluciona muchos de los problemas encontrados en las bases de datos relacionales en el sentido de que proporciona información morfosintáctica y pragmática sobre las unidades léxicas, evita la dependencia del lenguaje mediante el uso de conceptos y minimiza la redundancia mediante el agrupamiento cognitivo. En segundo lugar, se ofrece una desc…
Why *John can't contribute Mary money. Constructional behavior of contribute verbs
2016
Este artículo examina la estructura conceptual de las principales construcciones en las que aparecen los verbos de contribución de Levin (1993), concretamente las construcciones ditransitiva y dativa que alternan a menudo. El presente trabajo cuestiona la fiabilidad del criterio semántico de Levin para los verbos de contribución y demuestra que la subsunción de estos verbos en la construcción dativa se rige por varios factores, como la presencia de múltiples agentes, múltiples entidades transferidas y múltiples recipientes que desenfocan la relación de posesión entre un único recipiente y un objeto (ej. contribuir, administrar, distribuir), y la prominencia conceptual del evento de movimien…
Accounting for the constructional behavior of "Fetch", "Find", "Gather" and "Reach"
2012
Este artículo se propone arrojar luz sobre los distintos tipos de realización construccional para los verbos "ir a por", "encontrar", "recoger" y "alcanzar", contrastándolos con "traer", "buscar", "reunir" y "extender" en la construcción ditransitiva y la construcción dativa. Con este fin, usaré la semántica léxica de Levin y las herramientas explicativas desarrolladas por el Modelo Léxico Construccional (MLC), propuesto por Ruiz de Mendoza y Mairal ("Levels"; "Constraints"). El MLC ha desarrollado una serie de restricciones internas y externas que definen las condiciones para la integración léxico-construccional o subsunción. Palabras clave: construcción ditransitiva, construcción dativa, …
How conceptual structure impinges on constructional behavior: the case of "give" verbs
2012
This article aims to cast light on the constructional behavior of nine of Levin�s (1993) give verbs, i.e. feed, lease, lend, loan, pay, peddle, rent, sell, and trade, in the ditransitive and dative constructions. This paper also proposes onomasiological hierarchies for these verbs on the basis of Faber and Mairal's (1999) lexematics-oriented taxonomies. My findings concur with Levin� (1993) and Faber and Mairal's (1999) hypothesis according to which the internal semantic parameters of a given verb function as predictors of that verb�s syntactic representations. In a hierarchy of predicates, the hyponyms display the same complementation patterns as their genus or superordinate predicate. Nev…
FrameNet and its limitations. The case of entity-specific change-of-state verbs
2013
This article examines the proposals made by the FrameNet project (Atkins, Fillmore and Johnson 2003; Fillmore, Johnson and Petruck 2003) with regard to Levin's (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. We have identified several limitations in this database: (i) only a small number of entity-specific change-of¬state verbs were listed in FrameNet (eight out of twenty-one verbs); (ii) there is a separation of the causative and inchoative uses of a verb into two different frames; (iii) in some cases no examples are provided for the Frame Elements of a particular verb (e.g. there are no examples for the verb swell in the 'expansion' and 'change of position on a scale' frames); (iv) usually …
Why *Sarah cannot glow the light bulb? Accounting for the constructional behavior of light and sound emission verbs
2012
This article provides an in-depth lexical-constructional account of two English verbal classes, namely light and sound emission, with special emphasis on the causative-inchoative alternation, the resultative and the intransitive motion constructions. To shed light on the kinds of constructional realization for these verb classes, I will follow and build on previous taxonomic work by Levin (1993) and Faber and Mairal (1999), which will be complemented by the analytical and explanatory tools developed by the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal, 2007, 2008; Mairal and Ruiz de Mendoza, 2008, 2009). Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995) show that internally caused verbs can only …
Lexical classes and constructions: an analysis of the constructional realization of entity-specific change-of-state English verbs
2013
This study analyzes a so far neglected part of the constructional behavior of Levin's (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. More specifically, we discuss the integration of verbs from this lexical class into the intransitive-resultative construction. We base our analysis on the Lexical Constructional Model or LCM (Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2008, 2011; Mairal and Ruiz de Mendoza 2009; Ruiz de Mendoza 2013). It will be shown that the internal and external constraints postulated by the LCM constitute useful explanatory and analytical tools for the fusion processes between these verbs and the intransitive-resultative construction. We also propose a classification of these verbs on the …
Accounting for Causal Constructions within the Framework of the Lexical Constructional Model
2014
This article sets out to examine causal constructions by focusing on a particular verbal class, namely, entity-specific change-of-state verbs. The most important step consisted in finding a theoretical framework capable of accounting for the intricate syntactic behavior of these verbs and of giving equal importance to the contribution of both lower-level and high-level configurations. The present study also shows that the external constraints formulated by the Lexical Constructional Model constitute useful analytical tools for the integration of this verbal class into the intransitive causal construction. The external constraints involve cognitive mechanisms such as high-level metaphor and …