Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleContrastive Analysis of Stretched Collocations with Get and Take: Their use and Pedagogical ImplicationsSilvia Molina PlazaThis paper explores the pedagogical implications of contrastive analyses of light verb constructions containing get and take in English and Spanish based on electronic corpora, the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). The main tenets of collocations from a contrastive perspective-and the points of contact and departure between both languages-are discussed prior to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 23 Jul 2015 · 8,092 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsRegister-Specific Collocational Constructions in English and Spanish: A Usage-Based ApproachGloria Corpas PastorConstructions are usage-based, conventionalised pairings of form and function within a cline of complexity and schematisation. Most research within Construction Grammar has focused on the monolingual description of schematic constructions: Mainly in English, but to a lesser extent in other languages as well. By contrast, very little constructional analyses have been carried out across languages. In this study we will … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 13 Jul 2015 · 9,705 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHow Trainee Translators Analyse Lexico-Grammatical PatternsChris Gledhill, Natalie KüblerIn this study, we examine the ability of advanced students of specialised translation to identify and analyse 'generic collocations' in a corpus of specialised multilingual texts (mostly technical or scientific texts in English, French and German). In general, we find that our students attach much importance to frequently-occurring 'clusters' or 'n-grams'. However the students find it difficult to see these … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 15 Jul 2015 · 8,549 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Automatic Collocation Extraction from Arabic CorpusAbdulgabbar Mohammad Saif, Mohd J.A. AzizProblem statement: The identification of collocations is very important part in natural language processing applications that require some degree of semantic interpretation such as, machine translation, information retrieval and text summarization. Because of the complexities of Arabic, the collocations undergo some variations such as, morphological, graphical, syntactic variation that constitutes the difficulties of identifying the collocation. Approach: We used the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 16 Dec 2010 · 8,281 accessesView PDFCite