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A corpus-based quantitative study of nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English

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Abstract

This paper reports on a corpus-based quantitative study of the use of nominalizations across China English and British English in two comparable media corpora. In contrast to previous corpus-based studies of nominalizations, we start by using a syntactic approach and proceed with some methodological innovations incorporating large lexical databases and syntactically annotated corpora. The data show that there are significant differences in the use of nominalizations across these two English varieties. It is hoped that this research will offer useful insights on variations in nominalization across different English varieties and also on the understanding of the two English varieties in question. © 2014 by Ying Liu, Alex Chengyu Fang, and Naixing Wei.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28)
EditorsWirote Aroonmanakun, Prachya Boonkwan, Thepchai Supnithi
Place of PublicationThailand
PublisherChulalongkorn University
Pages101-110
ISBN (Print)978-616-551-887-1
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2014
Event28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28) - Phuket, Thailand
Duration: 12 Dec 201414 Dec 2014
http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/paclic28/proceedings.html
https://aclanthology.org/volumes/Y14-1/

Conference

Conference28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28)
PlaceThailand
CityPhuket
Period12/12/1414/12/14
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