英语心理动词释义的局部语法研究——以《牛津高阶英语词典》高频3000词中心理动词释义为例

A Local Grammar Perspective on English Mental Verb Definitions:Taking 3000 Mental Verbs in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary as Examples

以牛津高频3000词中心理动词的释义为语料,借鉴Sinclair和Barnbrook的研究范式,采用局部语法(local grammar)路径分析心理动词的释义特征,主要探究了心理动词释义的局部语法型式、局部语法型式中功能成分的主要语言表达方式及其语义参量表现,以期对外向型学习词典的释义研究与对外汉语学习词典的编纂以及自然语言加工处理有所启示。

By focusing on the OALD definitions of mental verbs in Oxford 3000 words in the light of Sinclair’s and Barnbrook’s research paradigms,this study aims to reveal the definition patterns and related characteristics of English mental verbs by adopting local grammar approach.After digging out the patterns of the functional components and their connections between the main linguistic forms and semantic parameters of their functional components,the analysis will throw new lights to the studies of definitions in learner’s dictionaries,to the compilation of Chinese learner’s dictionaries and to natural language processing as well.