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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Totally new and pretty awesome : Amplifier–adjective bigrams in GloWbE
Susanne Wagnersubject
060201 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and LanguageBigram06 humanities and the artsAdverbIntensifierAttractionLanguage and LinguisticsLinguisticsVarieties of English030507 speech-language pathology & audiology03 medical and health sciences0602 languages and literatureSociology0305 other medical scienceAdjectivedescription
Abstract Previous work on adjectival intensification (e.g. very good , so glad , really great ) has mostly focussed on the adverbs in question, showing that different (native) varieties of English display distinctive preferences concerning intensifier choice. However, little is known so far about the role that intensifier-adjective units (bigrams) play. The present paper offers a first contribution to fill this research gap by focussing on a data-driven approach to (mostly) high-frequency bigrams and their collocational behaviour in the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE). Asymmetric and symmetric measures are employed to establish attraction and repulsion between adverb and adjective, while highlighting regional similarities and differences.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-01 | Lingua |