Meaning and Grammar in the light of Corpus Pattern Analysis

IF 0.8 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Patrick Hanks, Wulin Ma
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This article presents an interview with Professor Patrick Hanks, a British lexicographer and corpus linguist, who proposes a new approach – a corpus-driven, phraseological approach – to lexicography. Hanks has developed a procedure called Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA), which is the foundation of The Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (in progress). The basic aim of CPA is to explore the relationship between word meaning and patterns of word use. Hanks maintains that the verb is ‘the pivot of the clause’. Verb meanings – or, rather, the meanings of clauses – are mapped onto phraseological patterns, rather than just being listed for words in isolation. Associated with this is the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which was discussed in his monograph published by MIT Press in 2013. In this interview, Professor Hanks outlines his vision of a phraseological dictionary of the future (an alternative to WordNet). He discusses meaning and grammar in the light of Corpus Pattern Analysis. Specifically, he explains the procedure of Corpus Pattern Analysis, and the objectives of the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV), including the light that such work can shed on the relationship between language and logic. He discusses the relationship between PDEV and English grammar, his evaluation of generative linguistics, and his views on Noam Chomsky. He also highlights the contributions made by linguists of the past to the understanding of the nature of meaning in language. He goes on to suggest that any new bilingual dictionary with Chinese as a source language should be based on careful analyses of actual language use, both in Chinese and in the various target languages.
从语料库模式分析看语义和语法
本文采访了英国词典编纂者和语料库语言学家帕特里克·汉克斯教授,他提出了一种新的词典编纂方法——语料库驱动的短语学方法。汉克斯开发了一种名为语料库模式分析(CPA)的程序,这是《英语动词模式词典》(正在编写中)的基础。CPA的基本目的是探讨词义与词汇使用模式之间的关系。汉克斯认为动词是“从句的支点”。动词的意思——或者更确切地说,从句的意思——被映射到短语模式上,而不是单独列出单词。与此相关的是规范与剥削理论(TNE),他在2013年由麻省理工学院出版社出版的专著中对此进行了讨论。在这次采访中,汉克斯教授概述了他对未来短语词典(WordNet的替代品)的看法。他从语料库模式分析的角度讨论了语义和语法。具体来说,他解释了语料库模式分析的过程,以及《英语动词模式词典》(PDEV)的目标,包括这种工作可以揭示语言与逻辑之间的关系。他讨论了PDEV与英语语法的关系,他对生成语言学的评价,以及他对诺姆·乔姆斯基的看法。他还强调了过去语言学家对理解语言意义本质的贡献。他接着建议,任何以汉语为源语言的新双语词典都应该基于对汉语和各种目标语言的实际语言用法的仔细分析。
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1.90
自引率
20.00%
发文量
16
期刊介绍: The International Journal of Lexicography was launched in 1988. Interdisciplinary as well as international, it is concerned with all aspects of lexicography, including issues of design, compilation and use, and with dictionaries of all languages, though the chief focus is on dictionaries of the major European languages - monolingual and bilingual, synchronic and diachronic, pedagogical and encyclopedic. The Journal recognizes the vital role of lexicographical theory and research, and of developments in related fields such as computational linguistics, and welcomes contributions in these areas.
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