Intensifier-Verb Collocations in Academic English by Chinese Learners Compared to Native-Speaker Students  

中国英语学习者和英语母语者使用程度副词和动词的比较

作　　者：Junyu WU Heli TISSARI 吴君与;赫里·蒂萨里(维多利亚大学,加拿大;赫尔辛基大学,芬兰)

机构地区：[1]University of Victoria,Canada [2]University of Helsinki,Finland

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2021年第4期470-487,589,共19页中国应用语言学（英文）

摘　　要：It is difficult for L2 English learners in general, and especially Chinese learners of English, to form idiomatic collocations. This article presents a comparison of the use of intensifier-verb collocations in English by native speaker students and Chinese ESL learners, paying particular attention to verbs which collocate with intensifiers. The data consisted of written production from three corpora: two of these are native English corpora: the British Academic Written English(BAWE) Corpus and Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers(MICUSP). The third one is a recently created Chinese Learner English corpus, Ten-thousand English Compositions of Chinese Learners(TECCL).Findings suggest that Chinese learners of English produce significantly more intensifier-verb collocations than native speaker students, but that their English attests a smaller variety of intensifier-verb collocations compared with the native speakers. Moreover, Chinese learners of English use the intensifier-verb collocation types just-verb, only-verb and really-verb very frequently compared with native speaker students. As regards verb collocates, the intensifiers hardly, clearly,well, strongly and deeply collocate with semantically different verbs in native and Chinese learner English. Compared with the patterns in Chinese learner English, the intensifiers in native speaker English collocate with a more stable and restricted set of verb collocates.对于英语作为第二语言的学习者来说,尤其是中国学生,英语的词型搭配是比较困难的,因为英语的词型搭配缺少规律性。这个研究比较的是中国学生和英语母语者对于英语程度副词和动词的词型搭配的使用,侧重于词型搭配中的动词类型。数据收集于三个语料库:分别是英国学术英语写作语料库(BAWE),美国密歇根大学学生英语写作语料库(MICUSP),还有中国英语万文写作语料库(TECCL)。研究结果显示相较于英语母语者,中国英语学习者使用更多的程度副词和动词词性搭配,但是类型比较单一;中国学习者更倾向使用just、only、really来搭配动词;中国英语学习者和英语母语者频繁使用的程度副词,例如hardly、clearly、well、strongly和deeply,所搭配的动词具有完全不同的语义。比起中国英语学习者常用的搭配,英语母语者常用的程度副词和动词词型搭配更为固定。

关 键 词：Chinese learner English (intensifier-verb)collocation corpus linguistics L2 English learner corpora 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]