Is It 'Increase' or 'Rise?' A Corpus-Based Behavioural Profile Study of English Near-Synonym Verbs

Autor/inn/en	Uba, Sani Yantandu; Irudayasamy, Julius
Titel	Is It 'Increase' or 'Rise?' A Corpus-Based Behavioural Profile Study of English Near-Synonym Verbs
Quelle	In: MEXTESOL Journal, 47 (2023) 1, (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Uba, Sani Yantandu) ORCID (Irudayasamy, Julius)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Computational Linguistics; English; Language Variation; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Profiles; Reference Materials; Word Frequency; Syntax; Economics; Money Management; Word Lists; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Discourse Analysis; College Second Language Programs; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Course Descriptions; United Kingdom; Oman + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; English language; Englisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Phrasenstruktur; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Literaturnachweis; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Wortliste; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kursstrukturplan; Großbritannien
Abstract	This study emerged as a result of insufficient knowledge and descriptions of the behavioural profiles of the near-synonym English verbs, "increase" and "rise," by non-corpus-based traditional reference sources used by students. We explored the behavioural characteristics of this group of near-synonym verbs using the British National Corpus (BNC) of 100 million words as our corpus. Using the "Sketch Engine" Tool, we examined their frequency, subject and object noun collocations, adverb collocations, and syntactic behavioural profiles. The results demonstrate that both words collocate with subject and object nouns. However, on their top ten subject collocation lists, "increase" only collocates with abstract nouns related to finance and economy, whereas "rise" collocates with three different kinds of abstract nouns related to finance/economy, the human entity, and the natural environment, and one concrete noun related to natural environment. In addition, they only have two collocates in common on their top subject noun collocates list. In terms of object noun collocations, "increase" only collocates with abstract nouns connected to finance/economy and the natural environment, but "rise" collocates with abstract and concrete nouns on their top list. They also only have three adverb collocations in common on the top list. "Rise" has 17 distinct syntactic patterns, whereas "increase" has 15 different syntactic patterns. In teaching near-synonyms, we propose using corpus-based reference resources. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01