Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is one of the fresh language phenomena introduced by Halliday (1985) in the framework of functional grammar. Thompson (2004) states that the salient source of GM would be ‘Nominalization’ where a noun form attempts to represent a verb form or in other words, a verb form with its different process is represented in a noun form. He continues that any wording is ought to ...

This paper discusses the implications of human word association norms on the modelling of word associations from large corpora and the relevance of different types of associations in the process of translation, with a focus on adjectives. It is observed that the proportion of paradigmatic responses found in English norms tends to be higher, whereas a clear preference for syntagmatic association...

• Semantic annotation and corpus analysis enable the empirical study of emotion talk. Compilation, tagging lexical audiovisual about end life. Key semantic domains: treatment, death, disease, being alive, help, people kin. Positive emotions (love, happiness, calmness) compensate for sadness fear. This article focuses on talk in English a pilot It describes process compiling annotating containin...

Through a case, frequency, and collocational study, this work aims to detect linguistic differences between the letters shareholders of profitable loss-making companies. In sample 50 from each group, two lexical categories were analysed, verbs eventive nouns, using corpus manager Sketch Engine. The results indicated that nouns with an absolute frequency at least five occurrences overlap in both...

We introduce three reference data sets provided for the MWE 2008 evaluation campaign focused on ranking MWE candidates. The data sets comprise bigrams extracted from the Prague Dependency Treebank and the Czech National Corpus. The extracted bigrams are annotated as collocational and non-collocational and provided with corpus frequency information.

This paper explores the idea that certain locality effects on phonologically conditioned allomorphy and external sandhi processes can be explained by the locality of production planning. The first part of this paper presents evidence for this hypothesis based on locality effects in phonological conditions on the choice of allomorph of the affix /ing/ between [in] and [iN]. A second and more spe...

The purpose of this study is to disambiguate Japanese compound verbs (JCV) based on two methods: (1) a statistical method which makes use of collocational or semantic information about different verb combinations, and (2) a manual rule-based method which utilises verbal and nominal semantic features. We also present a combined method where the output of the statistical method is fed into the ru...

This article is intended for the discussion of the lexemes denoting the feeling of great pleasure sub-classified into four groups of adjectives (‘delighted’, ‘elated’, and ‘jubilant’); nouns (‘bliss’, ‘ecstasy’, ‘euphoria’, ‘glee’, ‘joy’, and ‘rapture’); verbs (‘exult’ and ‘rejoice’); and idioms (‘walk on air’, ‘in seventh heaven’, ‘on cloud nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘th...

The overreliance on quantitative, numeric information and the underuse of qualitative, textual information is a common weakness in strategic management. This affects particularly the practice of competitive intelligence, which aims to provide actionable information about the company-external environment for decision making. Yet, forward-looking and insightful information about the environment o...