A Corpus-Based Behavioral Profile Study of the Near-Synonyms: Serious, Severe, Grave, Grievous  

作　　者：Qi Chen 

机构地区：[1]Fujian Normal University,Fuzhou 350007,Fujian Province,China

出　　处：《Journal of Contemporary Educational Research》2024年第3期60-68,共9页当代教育研究（百图）

摘　　要：Using Corpus of Contemporary American English as the source data,this paper carries out a corpus-based behavioral profile study to investigate four near-synonymous adjectives(serious,severe,grave,and grievous),focusing on their register and the types of nouns they each modify.Although sharing core meaning,these adjectives exhibit variations in formality levels and usage patterns.The identification of fine-grained usage differences complements the current inadequacies in describing these adjectives.Furthermore,the study reaffirms the effectiveness of the corpus-based behavioral profile approach in examining synonym differences.

关 键 词：CORPUS Behavioral profile Near-synonym Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA) 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]