文档介绍：Lexical patterning in academic talk
Pat Byrd
ia State University
hpbyrd@
/PatByrd/
星战风暴
Lexical Pattern defined
Pattern =
Repeated word or repeated sets of words
Repeated =
Repeated by many speakers/writers in a large corpus
Repeated by many speakers/writers but hard to find in a particular corpus
Repeated by a single speaker/writer in a corpus text…and maybe used by others but perhaps that person’s habit of speech
NOT a syntactic pattern
But
A repetition of a word
Or a set of words
Types of lexical patterns
Corpus studies have revealed a wide variety of often repeated lexical patterns in all types munication.
These include
Single word formulas (thanks, okay)
Two-word collocates (help & people)
Multi-word sets with internal gaps (in the … place)
Multi-word sets that pletion (I don’t want to….)
Invariable multi-word sets (on the other hand)
Phrasal verbs (look up)
Prepositional verbs (agree with)
Multi-word idioms (… give someone a run for … money)
Names (ia State University)
Technical terminology (degree of freedom)
Phrase frames (the … of the, it is … to)
Conception of lexical patterning behind this study
#1. Language made up of a large lexicon with single words and multi-word units
We pull words and sets of words from memory bine them using syntactic rules
Word sets often overflow the traditional syntactic boundaries of subject-predicate
#2. Prospecting ahead …Sinclair and Brazil
Words are used with other words…when we choose a word then we are choosing other words that are frequent with that word
e with grammatical expectations. If I start a statement with “while we” then listeners expect me to continue on with some verb/predicate that flows from that starting point
What we wanted to know…
How do the prosodic chunks and the lexical patterns interact?
How much of each sample is made up of lexical patterns?
How do bine the lexical patterns into longer units?
What types of lexical patterns are found in the samples? What can teachers of munication m