A preliminary corpus-based diachronic analysis of the behavioral profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English
The present master dissertation, which is a preliminary corpus-based behavioral profile (henceforth BP) study examines the competition and usage patterns of the attributive uses of the following set of adjective near-synonyms in American English from a diachronic perspective with data from the Corpu...
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| Format: | master thesis |
| Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) |
| Repository: | Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/15143 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15143 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5705 Lingüística sincrónica::570508 Semántica Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5703 Geografía lingüística Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5702 Lingüística diacrónica::570201 Lingüística histórica Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5701 Lingüística aplicada::570104 Lingüística informatizada |
| Summary: | The present master dissertation, which is a preliminary corpus-based behavioral profile (henceforth BP) study examines the competition and usage patterns of the attributive uses of the following set of adjective near-synonyms in American English from a diachronic perspective with data from the Corpus of Historical American English (henceforth COHA): perfumed, fragrant, scented, and sweet-smelling.2 My main objective is to analyze the lexical items’ collocational behavior throughout the history of American English. This is done with the intention of unfolding their distributional patterns and fine-grained aspects of meaning, information which is indispensable in order to establish differences between the near-synonyms, but which is not provided in dictionaries of synonyms and thesauri. |
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