Analyses of linguistic corpora have revealed that natural language is to a very large extent based on (semi-)preconstructed phrases. Drawing on corpus-based approaches to the description of such lexico-grammatical patterns in language use, the present study puts into perspective the question of why one and the same lexical item occurs in different patterns. The question of pattern selection (i....

The aim of this work is to nd sub-typed Geographic Named Entities from the analysis of relations between Place Names surrounded nominal group within a speci c phrasal context in a set of textual documents. The paper presents a method involving natural language processing and heterogeneous resources like gazetteers, thesauri or ontologies. The work and the results focus a French language corpus....

The paper investigates directives addressed to tower crane operators by a construction worker. By examining grammatical variation in connection with load relocation tasks, the study shows how design and sequential positioning of directive turns vary systematically according particular phase work task overall structural organization activity. worker's selection lexico-syntactic forms embodied ac...

The acts of apologizing and responding to apology are common activities in communication since using only either these two crucial speech cannot itself establish fully effective communication. This article aims examine response strategies that used English romance family films find out the lexico-grammatical realizations utterances conversations. was qualitatively designed with support research...

In research writing, one of the challenging questions is about extent to which methods need be succinctly summarised in introductory sections. To answer this intriguing question, Swales’ (2004) genre-based analytical framework was used examine frequencies method summaries (MSs) article introductions (RAIs) two major social science disciplines, namely Ethnic Studies (ES) and Industrial Relations...

This paper investigates the progression of narrative and psychological emotional development major character in Home They Brought her Warrior Dead by applying Halliday’s theory transitivity. Transitivity patterns are useful to study link between languages thought The will pave way understanding inner feelings widow, which concealed poet using different linguistic choices. In first two stanzas p...

The internal and often iconic structure of the signs in a signed language (SL)—the rough equivalent of words in spoken languages—present interesting challenges for linguistic theory. Specifically, lexicalisation in SLs occurs when a signed unit acquires a clearly identifiable and replicable citation form which is regularly and strongly associated with a meaning. The meaning is unpredictable and...

Abstract The article deals with attributive modification in South American languages. It focuses on descriptive terms that denote properties. First of all, it is observed property possible most, but not all typology constructions argued to constitute a continuum, from syntactically loose nominal expressions, the one hand, morphologically complex structures which are ambiguous between compoundin...