The Treatment of Argument Structure Constructions in Online English Learners' Dictionaries: The Case of V N ADJ ASCs

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Lexikos Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.5788/33-1-1812

Yongfang Feng, Hai Xu

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Abstract

Despite their diversity and complexity in structure and meaning, little research has been conducted into the systematic presentation of argument structure constructions (ASCs) in English learners' dictionaries (ELDs). To fill in the gap, this paper focused on the treatment of V N ADJ ASCs in the "Big Five" online ELDs against usage data. First a list of 40 target verbs was obtained using two measures of contingency (i.e., faithfulness and collostruction strength) through collostructional analysis of V N ADJ ASCs in the British National Corpus, and then the related ASCs regarding their macro- and micro-structural presentation in selected dictionaries were examined. It was found that most ELDs attach importance to ASCs, notably LDOCE, which assigns many of them the status of phrases. Nevertheless, the treatment of ASCs in current ELDs is inadequate. First, the inclusion of ASCs in most ELDs is far from sufficient. Second, in some cases, there is a mismatch between a valency pattern illustration and an illustrative example. Last but not least, most ELDs are not consistent with respect to their policy of listing and encoding ASCs, and assigning them the status of phrases. We proposed, in the framework of the usage-based construction grammar, some suggestions for optimizing the treatment of ASCs. Keywords: argument structure constructions, online English learners' dictionary, phraseology, collostructional analysis, usage-based construction grammar

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论元结构在在线英语学习者词典中的处理:以vn ADJ ASCs为例

尽管论点结构结构在结构和意义上具有多样性和复杂性，但对英语学习者词典中论点结构结构(ASCs)的系统表达的研究很少。为了填补这一空白，本文重点研究了根据使用数据处理“五大”在线eld中的V N ADJ ASCs。首先，通过对英国国家语料库中V - N - ADJ谓语动词的结构分析，采用两种权变指标(即忠实度和结构强度)获得了40个目标动词，然后对相关谓语动词在某些词典中的宏观和微观结构表现进行了考察。研究发现，大多数语言语言规范都很重视ASCs，尤其是LDOCE，其中许多ASCs被赋予了短语的地位。然而，在目前的发展中国家，对ASCs的治疗是不够的。首先，在大多数eld中纳入ASCs是远远不够的。其次，在某些情况下，在价模式插图和说明性示例之间存在不匹配。最后但并非最不重要的是，大多数eld在列出和编码asc以及为其分配短语状态的策略方面不一致。在基于用法的构式语法框架下，我们提出了一些优化非谓语从句处理的建议。关键词:论点结构结构，在线英语学习者词典，短语学，结构分析，基于用法的结构语法

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Lexikos Multiple-

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1.00

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25.00%

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7 weeks

期刊介绍： Lexikos (Greek for "of or for words") is a journal for the lexicographical specialist. It is the only journal in Africa which is exclusively devoted to lexicography. Articles dealing with all aspects of lexicography and terminology or the implications that research in related disciplines such as linguistics, computer and information science, etc. has for lexicography will be considered for publication. Articles may be written in Afrikaans, English, Dutch, German and French.