中国大学生英语非词汇化动词的习得及对比分析——以高频动词give为例

The Acquisition of Non-lexicalized Verbs by Chinese Learners of English and Comparative Analysis: A Case of High-frequency Verb "give"

利用学习者语料库,对大学英语专业3～4年级和非英语专业3～4年级学习者高频动词give非词汇化的搭配型式特征进行调查分析。结果发现,英语专业学生所使用的名词搭配词要比非英语专业学生所用的搭配词种类更多,语义更丰富。同时,就学习者的搭配词与本族语语料库BNC中的搭配词对比发现,他们使用典型名词搭配词的能力较弱,其非词汇化动词搭配的典型性差异明显,并且学习者搭配词中也存在不少语际及语内错误。

This corpus-based paper investigates the collocation patterns of non-lexicalized verb ＂give＂ in Chinese college English writing used by both English-majors and non-English majors, and finds out there big differences between them. There are also significant differences between English learners and native English speakers in the typical collocations. In addition, the study gives an analysis of many collocation er- rors made by Chinese learners.