Implementing quantitative data in a qualitative contrastive approach: the case of COME+V-ING
This paper sets out to describe how quantitative approaches can be combined within a framework traditionally based on a qualitative-only methodology. In order to do so, the linguistic focus of the study is the homotactic sequence COME+V-ING in English. Resorting to the COCA-BYU and frequency tables,...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/5335 |
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| Summary: | This paper sets out to describe how quantitative approaches can be combined within a framework traditionally based on a qualitative-only methodology. In order to do so, the linguistic focus of the study is the homotactic sequence COME+V-ING in English. Resorting to the COCA-BYU and frequency tables, new arguments are brought forward leading to a typology that helps sort out the collostruction [COME+V-ING] (like in She came running in the kitchen) from other manifestations of the linear sequence in COME+V-ING. Focusing on the collostruction [COME+V-ING], the question of its semantic function is addressed. Does it encode subjective perception, suddenness as it was discussed before by other authors ? Using translation data, collected out of a representative literary corpus, it is argued that although perception and suddenness are often associated in context with the use of [COME+V-ING], the collostruction itself does not encode these values. Rather, it implies that the event expressed is marked as inevitable. |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3331 2427-0466 |