一次,在与一位外籍英语教师谈话时,我用了这样一个句子:“There’s no describing it.”(“简直无法形容。”)听了这话后,外籍教师称赞说这是“idiomatic English”。受到外籍教师称赞后,当然很自信,第二次不假思索又用了一个同样结构...一次,在与一位外籍英语教师谈话时,我用了这样一个句子:“There’s no describing it.”(“简直无法形容。”)听了这话后,外籍教师称赞说这是“idiomatic English”。受到外籍教师称赞后,当然很自信,第二次不假思索又用了一个同样结构的句子:展开更多
Four sampled corpora have been used for a quantitative analysis on usage of past participles(PPs) in maritime English (ME) and general English(GE). Part-of-speech tagging software CLAWS5 and AntConc 3.2.0 are used for...Four sampled corpora have been used for a quantitative analysis on usage of past participles(PPs) in maritime English (ME) and general English(GE). Part-of-speech tagging software CLAWS5 and AntConc 3.2.0 are used for extraction of PPs and da-ta collection. Standardized frequency based on 100000 words is adopted to ensure the comparability of PPs found in different corpo-ra. This study covers analysis of overall frequency distribution and different grammatical functions of PPs. Results show that ME prefers using more PPs and these PPs are more likely to be used as predicative and postpositive attribute than does GE.Detailed comparison and contrast about the use of PPs between GE and ME are also made, thus providing helpful information for learners or teachers of maritime English.展开更多
文摘Four sampled corpora have been used for a quantitative analysis on usage of past participles(PPs) in maritime English (ME) and general English(GE). Part-of-speech tagging software CLAWS5 and AntConc 3.2.0 are used for extraction of PPs and da-ta collection. Standardized frequency based on 100000 words is adopted to ensure the comparability of PPs found in different corpo-ra. This study covers analysis of overall frequency distribution and different grammatical functions of PPs. Results show that ME prefers using more PPs and these PPs are more likely to be used as predicative and postpositive attribute than does GE.Detailed comparison and contrast about the use of PPs between GE and ME are also made, thus providing helpful information for learners or teachers of maritime English.
基金supported in part by the Graduate Student-Faculty Mentoring Research Program to the first, second, and fourth authors in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati, USA。
