Search results for "Phrase"
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The 'terroridiom' principle between spoken and written discourse
2008
This paper focuses on phraseology used within the domain of politics, both in written and spoken discourse. We concentrate on the lemma TERROR and on the recurrent sequences in which it is embedded, reflecting how native speakers, both American and British, tend to use it in preferred environments making routinized blocks of language. The data come from two corpora: the spoken corpus includes speeches of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and the written corpus is made up of articles from The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Since text is nothing but phraseology of one kind or another (Sinclair 2008), our attempt here is to uncover which of the two varieties lends itself more willingly to…
Towards a philological characterization of don Enrique de Villena’s "Los doze trabajos de Hércules"
2019
Don Enrique de Aragón (c. 1384-1434) resulta una de las figuras más influyentes en el período del Humanismo peninsular. Su primera creación –Los doze trabajos de Hércules– constituye la primera interpretación mitológica del prerrenacimiento hispánico, al tiempo que constituye uno de los testimonios romances más antiguos del tópico de las armas y de las letras. Este artículo pretende caracterizar desde el punto de vista filológico sus rasgos de estilo más representativos, así como iniciar posibilidades re-novadas de estudio, centradas en la Fraseología hispánica medieval.
Verb Phrase Inversion in fictional and non-fictional written english
2014
In the last decades, full inversion constructions in which the subject follows the entire verb phrase in a declarative clause, as in"Beside him was a table full of well-known books", have been the subject of extensive research from a functional perspective. This paper is a further contribution to this line of research and offers a corpus-based analysis of a particular type of full inversion, namely verb phrase inversion (for example,"Standing grim and alone was the hulking eyesore of the territorial prison"), in written English texts. In recent work on inversion, there does not seem to be complete agreement as regards the distribution of verb phrase inversion in fiction and non-fiction. On …
Un-Pauline Paul? Philippians 2.6-11 in Context
2012
This article seeks to demonstrate (contra Geza Vermes and Ernst Lohmeyer) that Phil 2.6-11 is an integral part of the Letter to the Philippians as well as a natural part of the Corpus Paulinum, both linguistically and theologically. Essential vocabulary, phraseology, and themes in Phil 2.6-11 are compared with several other texts from Philippians, Romans, and Galatians.
Semantic Word Error Rate for Sentence Similarity
2016
Sentence similarity measures have applications in several tasks, including: Machine Translation, Paraphrase Iden- tification, Speech Recognition, Question-answering and Text Summarization. However, measures designed for these tasks are aimed at assessing equivalence rather than resemblance, partly departing from human cognition of similarity. While this is reasonable for these activities, it hinders the applicability of sentence similarity measures to other tasks. We therefore propose a new sentence similarity measure specifically designed for resemblance evaluation, in order to cover these fields better. Experimental results are discussed.
Expressive timing facilitates the neural processing of phrase boundaries in music: Evidence from event-related potentials
2013
The organization of sound into meaningful units is fundamental to the processing of auditory information such as speech and music. In expressive music performance, structural units or phrases may become particularly distinguishable through subtle timing variations highlighting musical phrase boundaries. As such, expressive timing may support the successful parsing of otherwise continuous musical material. By means of the event-related potential technique (ERP), we investigated whether expressive timing modulates the neural processing of musical phrases. Musicians and laymen listened to short atonal scale-like melodies that were presented either isochronously (deadpan) or with expressive tim…
A Survey on how to Cross-Reference Web Information Sources
2015
International audience; The goal of giving information a well-defined meaning is currently shared by different research communities. Once information has a well-defined meaning, it can be searched and retrieved more effectively. Therefore, this paper is a survey about the methods that compare different textual information sources in order to determine whether they address a similar information or not. The improvement of the studied methods will eventually lead to increase the efficiency of documentary research. In order to achieve this goal, the first category of methods focuses on semantic measure definitions. A second category of methods focuses on paraphrase identification techniques, an…
“Phraseological fossils”: morphology of "fossil words" as idiomatic words in Spanish idioms
2020
[ES] En el presente trabajo pretendemos ofrecer un análisis de la configuración formal del tipo de palabras idiomáticas que denominamos “fósiles fraseológicos”. Para ello, tras delimitar los conceptos de “palabra idiomática” y “fósil fraseológico”, se aclaran los procedimientos metodológicos para recopilar este tipo de voces en un diccionario general actual como el DLE, y se procede al análisis del corpus obtenido. El principal rasgo de los fósiles fraseológicos es que presentan los cambios evolutivos característicos de la evolución del latín al español, como voces patrimoniales que son. [EN] The objective of this paper is to offer an analysis of the morphology of the kind of idiomatic word…
Die passivischen Ausdrücke der medizinischen Fachsprache
1998
The periphrases we had forgotten: review and update of the treatment of «tener + participle» and «llevar + participle» in teaching Spanish as a Forei…
2020
Las perífrasis resultativas y presentan una particular complejidad para los aprendientes de español, que se ve agravada por una desatención generalizada en los materiales de Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE). En este estudio, en primer lugar, llevamos a cabo un análisis del tratamiento que han recibido estas perífrasis en algunos manuales y gramáticas de ELE. Constatamos que, en la mayoría de casos, se han dado explicaciones insuficientes, confusas o excesivamente metalingüísticas de estas construcciones. Tras confirmar la necesidad de actualizar la enseñanza de y , llevamos a cabo una propuesta de sistematización de su tratamiento basándonos en los fundamentos teóricos de la gramática c…