International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volume 28, Issue 1-4, 2023

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics（SSCI三区，2022IF：1.00，排名：116/194）2023年第1-4期共刊文25篇。其中，2023年第1期共发文5篇，其中研究性论文4篇，书评1篇。研究性论文涉及波兰语派生研究、第一人称语音听证中的拟人化等。第2期共发文8篇，其中研究性论文6篇，书评2篇。研究性论文涉及韩国外来英语新词研究、语音手势意义单位描述、L2英语写作中句法复杂性的自动和手动分析比较等。2023年第3期共发文6篇，全部都为研究性论文，内容涉及语料库语言学研究趋势、句法注释差异的影响、单词共性评估等。第4期共发文6篇，其中研究性论文4篇，书评2篇。研究论文涉及新西兰英语中毛利语借词、平行语料库在西班牙语中的应用、汉语与格标记等。欢迎扩散转发！

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目录

Issue 1

RESEARCH ARTICLES

■Derivation and semantic autonomy，A corpus study of Polish głowa “head” and its diminutive główka, by  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Beata Wójtowicz, pp.: 1–27.

■Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology，Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing,by Luke Collins, Vaclav Brezina, Zsófia Demjén，Elena Semino, Angela Woods，pp.: 28–59.

■The rise of colligations，English can’t stand and German nicht ausstehen können, by Olav Hackstein, Ryan Sandell, Minna Suni, pp.: 60–90.

■Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing, by Niall Curry, pp.: 91 - 119.

BOOK REVIEW

■Review of Le Bruyn & Paquot (2021): Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition, by Li Nguyen, pp.: 120 - 124.

Issue 2

RESEARCH ARTICLES

■A corpus-based study of anglicized neologisms in Korea,

A diachronic approach to Korean and English word pairs, by Eun-Young Julia Kim，pp.: 125–143.

■Annotating dialogue acts in speech data，Problematic issues and basic dialogue act categories, by Darinka Verdonik, pp.: 144–171.

■Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning, by Yaoyao Chen, Svenja Adolphs, pp.: 172–201.

■Register variation across text lengths，Evidence from social media, by Aatu Liimatta, pp.: 202–231.

■A comparison of automated and manual analyses of syntactic complexity in L2 English writing, by Quang Hồng Châu, Bram Bulté, pp.: 232–262.

■LBiaP—A solution to the problem of attaining observation independence in lexical bundle studies, by Viviana Cortes, William Lake, pp.: 263–277.

BOOK REVIEW

■Review of McEnery & Brezina (2022): Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics, by Niall Curry, pp.: 278–283.

■Review of McCarthy (2020): Innovations and Challenges in Grammar, by Beatrix Busse, Sophie Du Bois, pp.: 284–289.

Issue 3

RESEARCH ARTICLES

■Things we smell and things they smell like,Communicatively relevant odours and odorants, by Thomas Poulton, pp.: 291 - 317.

■Assessing word commonness,Adding dispersion to frequency

, by Mikkel Ekeland Paulsen, pp.: 318 - 343.

■Research trends in corpus linguistics，A bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities, by Peter Crosthwaite, Sulistya Ningrum,Martin Schweinberger,pp.: 344 - 377.

■Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval，Verb-attached PPs in the history of English, by Eva Zehentner, Marianne Hundt, Gerold Schneider, Melanie Röthlisberger，pp.: 378–406.

■A year to remember?Introducing the BE21 corpus and exploring recent part of speech tag change in British English, by Paul Baker，pp.: 407–429.

■Annotation uncertainty in the context of grammatical change, by Marie-Luis Merten，Marcel Wever，Michaela Geierhos，Doris Tophinke，Eyke Hüllermeier，pp.: 430–459.

Issue 4

RESEARCH ARTICLES

■When loanwords are not lone words. Using networks and hypergraphs to explore Māori loanwords in New Zealand English

, by David Trye，Andreea S. Calude, Te Taka Keegan, Julia Falconer，pp.: 461–499.

■A proposal for the inductive categorisation of parenthetical discourse markers in Spanish using parallel corpora, by Hernán Robledo，Rogelio Nazar，pp.: 500–527.

■“You betcha I’m a ’Merican”,The rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker, by  Tomoharu Hirota，Laurel J. Brinton，pp.: 528–558.

■Dative alternation in Chinese. A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, by  Dong Zhang，Jiajin Xu，pp.: 559–585.

BOOK REVIEW

■Review of Egbert, Biber & Gray (2022): Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness, by  Tony McEnery，pp.: 586–591.

■Review of Brookes & Baker (2021): Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press, by  Turo Hiltunen，pp.: 592–596.

摘要

Issue 1

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Derivation and semantic autonomy，A corpus study of Polish głowa “head” and its diminutive główka

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL；Associate Professor (Department of African Languages and Cultures

Beata Wójtowicz, University of Warsaw: Warsaw, PL, associate professor (Department of African Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Oriental Studies

Abstract The article focuses on the polysemy and usage patterns of the Polish lexeme głowa “head” and its diminutive główka. Based on corpus methodology and cognitive linguistics analysis, it is argued that the two lexemes are too autonomous in their meanings than predicted by their morphological relatedness. As the two words cover different semantic domains, we observe that the diminutive suffix has developed a new function which signals lexicalization of meaning toward a non-human semantic domain, for example, material objects, plants, etc. Our research contributes to studies on Polish morphology and lexical semantics and to theoretical research on the polysemy of body part terms.

Key words: cognitive linguistics; head; lexical semantics; Polish; polysemy

Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology--Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing

Luke Collins， Lancaster University

Vaclav Brezina，Lancaster University: Lancaster, Lancashire, GB

Professor in Corpus linguistics

Zsófia Demjén，Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at University College London

Elena Semino

Angela Woods，Professor of Medical Humanities and Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University

Abstract Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” (McEnery & Hardie, 2012: 227). Our study investigates an important area of mental health research: the experiences of those who hear voices that others cannot hear, and particularly the ways in which those voices are described as person-like. We apply corpus methods to augment the findings of a qualitative approach to 40 interviews with voice-hearers, whereby each interview was coded as involving ‘minimal’ or ‘complex’ personification of voices. Our analysis provides linguistic evidence in support of the qualitative coding of the interviews, but also goes beyond a binary approach by revealing different types and degrees of personification of voices, based on how they are referred to and described by voice-hearers. We relate these findings to concepts that inform therapeutic interventions in clinical psychology.

Key words：collocation; health communication; normalisation; personification; triangulation

The rise of colligations--English can’t stand and German nicht ausstehen können

Olav Hackstein, Prof. Dr. Lehrstuhl für Historische und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft

Ryan Sandell

Abstract This article examines the lexically parallel English and German constructions can’t stand somebody/something and jemanden/etwas nicht ausstehen können “not tolerate (someone or something)”, from synchronic, diachronic, and quantitative perspectives. Syntactic and semantic restrictions suggest that the usage of stand and ausstehen in the relevant sense is older than other semantically similar verbs (e.g. English tolerate, German leiden), while quantitative evidence from corpora shows that the can’t stand and nicht ausstehen können constructions are both colligationally stronger than lexical competitors. Evidence from the history of stand indicates that the lexeme stand in the Germanic and other Indo-European languages has a long history of being employed in the relevant sense. The restrictions on usage and the colligational strength of the respective English and German constructions are thus argued to result from the antiquity of the construction and functional competition from other lexemes.

Key words： collostructional analysis; Germanic languages; historical linguistics; Indo-European linguistics; syntactic productivity

Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing

Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University: Manchester, GB

Abstract Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing typically focuses on direct questions. Such questions are signalled by question marks and are relatively easily searchable in a corpus. However, indirect questions can be more challenging to identify, as they can be introduced by a range of forms. Based on a contrastive analysis of a corpus of English, French, and Spanish economics research articles, this paper provides pertinent evidence on direct and indirect questions as reader engagement markers. Firstly, it shows that direct and indirect questions as reader engagement markers are a rhetorical and generic feature of academic writing in the economics research article and, secondly, it presents a comprehensive list of indirect question illocutionary force indicating devices, valuable for future studies of indirect questions. Methodologically, this paper illustrates a replicable process for functional analysis and discusses the value of theoretically merging corpus and contrastive linguistic approaches.

Key words：corpus-based contrastive analysis; function-to-form corpus analysis; illocutionary force indicating device; questions; reader engagement

Issue 2

RESEARCH ARTICLES

A corpus-based study of anglicized neologisms in Korea--A diachronic approach to Korean and English word pairs

Eun-Young Julia Kim, Korean Scholars’ Use of For-Pay Editors and Perceptions of Ethicality

Abstract This study examines usage changes of English-based loanwords and Korean replacement words promoted by the National Institute of Korean Language in a six-year span, using two corpora. It focuses on 18 Korean and anglicized word pairs appearing on the National Institute of Korean Language’s website that purportedly showcase the Institute’s successful efforts to curtail the usage of English words by promoting Korean replacement words. The results indicate that promoting Korean does not necessarily decrease the usage of English, and that the usage of English-based words seems to increase in conjunction with the Korean words. Several Korean words promoted by the National Institute of Korean Language have extremely low frequencies, and some loanwords are being used with various meanings. Commentaries are provided to explain various patterns of observed usage change.

Key words：Konglish; lexical borrowing; linguistic purism; loanwords; neologisms

Annotating dialogue acts in speech data--Problematic issues and basic dialogue act categories

Darinka Verdonik

Abstract The aims of this paper are to detect the most problematic issues related to dialogue act annotation in speech corpora and to define basic categories of dialogue acts. I critically examine and test generic schemes that represent different lines of dialogue act annotation: AMI, DART, ISO 24617–2 and SWBD-DAMSL. It is found that the most problematic issues regarding dialogue act annotation are related to the distinction between the semantic and pragmatic meanings of utterances, the annotation of metadiscourse, and the adequacy and informativeness of the tagset. The identified basic dialogue act categories are information providing, information seeking, actions, social acts and metadiscourse. The findings help improve dialogue act annotation.

Key words：communicative function; corpus pragmatics; dialogue tagset; metadiscourse; speech act

Towards a corpus-based description of speech-gesture units of meaning

Yaoyao Chen

Svenja Adolphs

Abstract The theories and methods in corpus linguistics (CL) have had an impact on numerous areas in applied linguistics. However, the interface between CL and multimodal speech-gesture studies remains underexplored. One fundamental question is whether it is possible, and even appropriate, to apply the theories and paradigms established based on textual data to multimodal data. To explore this, we examine how CL can assist investigating lexico-grammatical patterns of speech co-occurring with a recurrent gesture (i.e. the circular gesture). Sinclair’s (1996) unit of meaning model is used to describe the co-gestural speech patterns. The study draws on a subset of the Nottingham Multimodal Corpus, in which 570 instances of circular gestures and their co-occurring speech are identified and analysed. We argue that Sinclair’s unit of meaning model can be extended to include speech-gesture patterns, and that those descriptions enable a more nuanced understanding of meaning in context.

Key words：circular gestures; co-gestural speech patterns; multimodal corpus analysis; unit of meaning model

Register variation across text lengths--Evidence from social media

Aatu Liimatta, University of Helsinki: Helsinki, FI

Abstract This paper explores variation in lexico-grammatical register features across text lengths in a large-scale sample of Reddit comments. Very short texts are known to be problematic for many statistical methods, so understanding their nature is important for the corpus-linguistic study of social media, where most contributions are short. I show that the frequencies of linguistic features change with comment length, even between longer comments, although longer texts are often considered similar in statistical terms. Moreover, I classify the variation found between short comments of different lengths into two main patterns, although other patterns can also be found, and there is variation even within these patterns. Furthermore, I interpret the observed differences in terms of register variation. For example, shorter comments appear to be more casual and less edited in terms of their feature makeup, whereas narrative and informational registers seem to favor longer comments.

Key words：functional variation; Reddit; register analysis; social media; text length

A comparison of automated and manual analyses of syntactic complexity in L2 English writing

Quang Hồng Châu, VNU University of Languages & International Studies: Hanoi, Hanoi, VN

Bram Bulté，Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussels, BE

Abstract Automated tools for syntactic complexity measurement are increasingly used for analyzing various kinds of second language corpora, even though these tools were originally developed and tested for texts produced by advanced learners. This study investigates the reliability of automated complexity measurement for beginner and lower-intermediate L2 English data by comparing manual and automated analyses of a corpus of 80 texts written by Dutch-speaking learners. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal that the reliability of automated complexity measurement is substantially affected by learner errors, parser errors, and Tregex pattern undergeneration. We also demonstrate the importance of aligning the definitions of analytical units between the computational tool and human annotators. In order to enhance the reliability of automated analyses, it is recommended that certain modifications are made to the system, and non-advanced L2 English data are preprocessed prior to automated analyses.

Key words：automated analysis; L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer; syntactic complexity; Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity

LBiaP--A solution to the problem of attaining observation independence in lexical bundle studies

Viviana Cortes

William Lake

Abstract Overlapping bundles, that is, shorter lexical bundles that are totally or partially embedded in longer expressions, may prove problematic in the structural and functional classification of bundles. For example, many studies in the literature focus only on four-word lexical bundles and conduct extensive structural and functional analysis of those bundles. However, most scholars have not considered the fact that some 4-word expressions may be embedded in longer expressions. These longer expressions may not only have a different structure but may also carry out a different functional role. The present study introduces the Lexical Bundle Identification and Analysis Program (LBiaP), a software tool designed to facilitate lexical bundle research with independent observations of each lexical bundle identified. First, we describe complete overlapping, complete subsumption, and interlocking bundles in detail. We then explain how LBiaP deals with these types of bundles when detected.

Key words：formulaic language; independence of observations; linguistic analysis software; multicollinearity; psychology writing

Issue 3

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Things we smell and things they smell like--Communicatively relevant odours and odorants

Thomas Poulton，Monash University: Clayton, VIC, AU

Abstract The sense of smell has been relatively neglected in the Western research. It is not regarded as particularly useful compared to the perceived importance of senses like sight, sound, and touch. Correspondingly, English speakers are ill-equipped to describe qualities of smells, instead invoking entities that share similar olfactory qualities, e.g. like roses. This raises the question: which odours do English speakers frequently refer to, and which terms describe them? This corpus-driven study looks at nouns in olfactory contexts, and the conceptual domains they fall into. Results show that speakers invoke different smells according to context: when talking about a smell they perceive, when describing a smell, or in a description of another smell, which demonstrates the differential communicative functions of smells. Further analysis shows that smells that are described are more variable than those used as descriptors, and smells being used to describe are more emotional using psychometric norming data.

Key words：communicative need; English; olfaction; semantic prosody; smell

Assessing word commonness--Adding dispersion to frequency

Mikkel Ekeland Paulsen

Abstract The article investigates the two main corpus indicators of word commonness, frequency and dispersion, through a cross-validation analysis of frequency and four dispersion measures (‘Range’, ‘Chi-squared’, ‘Deviation of Proportions’ and ‘Juilland’s D’). The approach provides an estimation of the capacity of the named measures to predict the distribution of corpus items in an extracted language sample. Based on a dataset of 273 Norwegian compounds, the results show that especially Deviation of Proportions is a robust measure of dispersion that can be used in conjunction with frequency to substantiate assertions of word commonness based on corpus data. In addition, dispersion measures do not only reflect what sort of distribution the frequency statistic is generated from, but also how reliable the frequency estimation in the corpus sample is in terms of giving an accurate representation of frequency in the language variety that the corpus is sampled from.

Key words: cross-validation; dispersion; frequency; lexicography; word commonness

Research trends in corpus linguistics--A bibliometric analysis of two decades of Scopus-indexed corpus linguistics research in arts and humanities

Peter Crosthwaite, University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

Sulistya Ningrum, Universitas Gadjah Mada: Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Martin Schweinberger, The University of Queensland: Brisbane, QLD, AU

Abstract This paper uses a bibliometric analysis to map the field of Corpus Linguistics (CL) research in arts and humanities over the last 20 years, tracking changes in popular CL research topics, outlets, highly cited authors, and geographical origins based on the metadata of 5,829 CL-related articles from 429 Scopus-indexed journals. Results reveal an increase in corpus-assisted discourse studies, lexical bundles and academic writing, alongside newer topics including multilingualism and social media. CL studies span 193 languages/dialects with a significant rise in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Italian CL research over the past decade. Clusters of highly cited CL researchers are identified spanning (inter)disciplinary research areas. An increase of CL researchers in China, Poland, South Korea, Japan, and more is evidence of the now global reach of CL research. These findings mirror diachronic socio-cultural developments in applied linguistics and society more generally and provide insights into what CL research might come next.

Key words: bibliometric analysis; citation analysis; corpus linguistics; research trends; Scopus

Differences in syntactic annotation affect retrieval--Verb-attached PPs in the history of English

Eva Zehentner, Universität Zürich: Zürich, ZH, CH

Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

Gerold Schneider, Titulary Professor in Computational Linguistics (CL)

Melanie Röthlisberger, University of Zurich: Zurich, CH

Abstract Prepositional phrases (PPs) play an important part in English argument structure constructions, but pose considerable challenges for linguistic investigations of any kind. In addition to the fact that PP-attachment is generally notoriously difficult to model computationally, a particularly striking methodological challenge in investigating verb-dependent PPs across (synchronic and/or diachronic) corpora is that such cross-corpus studies may have to rely on material annotated with different tools. This study evaluates the impact that such differences in corpus annotation may have on retrieval of verb-attached PPs by means of data from Early and Late Modern English corpora. Our intrinsic (recall/precision) and extrinsic parser evaluation shows that annotation does play a role, but that the noise introduced is negligible as far as frequency developments are concerned.

Key words: bottom-up data retrieval; Early and Late Modern English; intrinsic and extrinsic parser evaluation; prepositions; verbal argument structure

A year to remember?--Introducing the BE21 corpus and exploring recent part of speech tag change in British English

Paul Baker

Abstract This paper describes the collection and analysis of the most recent edition of the Brown family, the BE21 corpus, consisting of 1 million words of written British English texts, published in 2021. Using the Coefficient of Variance, the frequencies of part of speech tags in BE21 are compared against the other four British members of the Brown family (from 1931, 1961, 1991 and 2006). Part of speech tags that are steadily increasing or decreasing in all five or the latest three corpora are examined via concordance lines and their distributions in order to identify long-standing and emerging trends in British English. The analysis points to the continuation of some trends (such as declines in modal verbs and titles of address), along with newer trends like the rise of first person pronouns. The analysis indicates that more general trends of densification, democratisation and colloquialisation are continuing in British English.

Key words: diachronic; frequency; part of speech; variation

Annotation uncertainty in the context of grammatical change

Marie-Luis Merten, 

Marcel Wever,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München: Munchen, Bayern, DE

Michaela Geierhos

Doris Tophinke

Eyke Hüllermeier

Abstract This paper elaborates on the notion of uncertainty in the context of annotation in large text corpora, specifically focusing on (but not limited to) historical languages. Such uncertainty might be due to inherent properties of the language, for example, linguistic ambiguity and overlapping categories of linguistic description, but could also be caused by a lack of annotation expertise. By examining annotation uncertainty in more detail, we identify the sources, deepen our understanding of the nature and different types of uncertainty encountered in daily annotation practice, and discuss practical implications of our theoretical findings. This paper can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the perspectives of the main scientific disciplines involved in corpus projects, linguistics and computer science, to develop a unified view and to highlight the potential synergies between these disciplines.

Key words: annotation; fuzziness; grammatical change; uncertainty

Issue 4

RESEARCH ARTICLES

When loanwords are not lone words--Using networks and hypergraphs to explore Māori loanwords in New Zealand English

David Trye, University of Waikato: Hamilton, Waikato, NZ

Andreea S. Calude

Te Taka Keegan

Julia Falconer

Abstract Networks are being used to model an increasingly diverse range of real-world phenomena. This paper introduces an exploratory approach to studying loanwords in relation to one another, using networks of co-occurrence. While traditional studies treat individual loanwords as discrete items, we show that insights can be gained by focusing on the various loanwords that co-occur within each text in a corpus, especially when leveraging the notion of a hypergraph. Our research involves a case-study of New Zealand English (NZE), which borrows Indigenous Māori words on a large scale. We use a topic-constrained corpus to show that: (i) Māori loanword types tend not to occur by themselves in a text; (ii) infrequent loanwords are nearly always accompanied by frequent loanwords; and (iii) it is not uncommon for texts to contain a mixture of listed and unlisted loanwords, suggesting that NZE is still riding a wave of borrowing importation from Māori.

Key words: hypergraphs; loanwords; Māori; networks; New Zealand English

A proposal for the inductive categorisation of parenthetical discourse markers in Spanish using parallel corpora

Hernán Robledo, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso: Viña del Mar, Valparaiso, CL

Rogelio Nazar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso: Valparaiso, Valparaiso, CL

Abstract We propose a method for the automatic induction of categories of Spanish discourse markers using parallel corpora, based on a quantitative and empirical approach that minimises explicit linguistic knowledge. We conducted the analysis the using a large Spanish-English parallel corpus. First, we used this corpus to obtain a list of parenthetical discourse markers in each language. Then, we used it as a “semantic mirror”, inspecting the English equivalences and assessing which Spanish discourse markers fulfil a similar function in discourse and vice versa. The result of this procedure is an emerging categorisation of discourse markers. The main contribution is to offer empirical evidence for the adequacy of existing manually-compiled taxonomies and the potential for discovery of new, unaccounted categories. In this article we focus on units pertaining to the Spanish language but, since the method is purely quantitative, it is possible to apply it to different languages as well.

Key words: clustering; discourse markers; inductive methods; parallel corpus; Spanish

 “You betcha I’m a ’Merican”--The rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker

Tomoharu Hirota, University of British Columbia: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Laurel J. Brinton,The University of British Columbia: Vancouver, BC, CA

Abstract This article studies you bet and related phrases when they are used as a parenthetical and as a free-standing response. Drawing on a range of corpora, we provide both contemporary and historical perspectives on the set of pragmatic expressions that has largely escaped scholars’ attention. Synchronically, we demonstrate that they are colloquial American pragmatic markers to express speaker certainty/affirmation or to respond to thanks. Diachronically, these markers are hypothesized to have developed out of main clause usage with a clausal complement (‘the matrix clause hypothesis’); however, our historical corpus evidence does not straightforwardly support this hypothesis. Instead, we suggest that multiple constructions might have been involved in the emergence of the pragmatic markers, namely, wh-interrogatives (e.g. what will you bet (that) …?), modal constructions (e.g. you may/can bet (that) …), and main clauses with a reduced complement (e.g. You bet I do).

Key words: affirmation; American English; matrix clause hypothesis; pragmatic marker; response to thanks

Dative alternation in Chinese--A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis

Dong Zhang, Beihang University: Beijing, CN

Jiajin Xu, Beijing Foreign Studies University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

Abstract This study investigates the factors significantly constraining dative alternation in Chinese by adopting mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The analysis showed that such factors significantly affected the choice of dative variants in Chinese, including the animacy, pronominality, and definiteness of the recipient, the accessibility and concreteness of the theme, and the length difference between the theme and the recipient. Findings were compared with those for the English dative alternation discussed in the literature. When the theme was recoverable from context or shorter than the recipient, the prepositional dative construction was preferred in both English and Chinese. This can be explained by the principles of end-focus and end-weight. However, when the recipient was animate or definite, the double object construction was preferred in English, while the prepositional dative construction was more likely to be used in Chinese. This divergence is due to the different syntactic and semantic features of their recipient markers.

Key words:dative alternation in Chinese; double object construction; mixed-effects logistic regression model; prepositional dative construction

期刊简介

The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics. The journal has a major reviews section publishing book reviews as well as corpus and software reviews. The language of the journal is English, but contributions are also invited on studies of languages other than English. IJCL occasionally publishes special issues. All contributions are peer-reviewed.

《国际语料库语言学杂志》 (IJCL) 发表原创研究，涵盖语料库语言学各个领域的方法论、应用和理论工作。通过对实证语言研究的关注，IJCL提供了一个呈现语言学各个领域新发现和创新方法的论坛，包括词汇学、语法、话语分析、文体学、社会语言学、形态学、对比语言学，应用语言学（语言教学、司法语言学）以及翻译研究。IJCL立足于语料库方法论，还欢迎语料库和计算语言学之间的接口研究。该期刊亦设评论板块，出版书评以及语料库和软件评论。该期刊主要研究英语，但也欢迎英语以外其他语言的研究。IJCL不定期出版特刊。所有出版文章都经过同行评审。

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