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A Corpus-Based Study of Semantic Categorizations of Attracted Adjectives to the it BE ADJ clause Construction

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: By implementing such corpus approaches as collexeme analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, this paper investigates the semantic categorizations of adjectives that are extremely significantly attracted to the it BE ADJ clause construction in English. The findings demonstrate that these adjectives could be at least subdivided into seven different semantic clusters that denote (1) importance, necessity, and possibility; (2) appropriateness, reasonability, and unreality; (3) impracticability and irrelevance; (4) undeniability and axiomaticity; (5) obviousness; (6) dubiety, desirability, and ease; (7) improbability and anomalousness.

Source: SAGE Open

DOI: 10.1177/21582440221091242

Authors: Jiaojiao Wang, Jiangping Zhou

Institutions: China West Normal University, Sichuan University, Peking University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,200

OpenAlex ID: W4224282965

FWCI: 1.883

Cites: 21

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10