Frequency in the Dictionary: A Corpus-Assisted Contrastive Analysis of English and Italian

ISBN-13: 9783034343688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str.

Maurizio Gotti; Dominic Stewart

Opis

This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, in particular with contrastive frequency across English and Italian, and to what degree this is captured in dictionaries. With the aid of corpus analysis, this survey brings out unexpected frequency differences in the areas of lexis, grammar and collocation.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction -The pervasiveness of frequency in language analysis and in language learning - Comparative frequencies of cognates and conventional equivalents across English and Italian - 3. The frequency of verb forms within specific grammatical categories as reported in English and Italian dictionaries - Passive and progressive labels in English monolingual learner's dictionaries - The frequency of negatives in English and Italian - Lexical environment across English and Italian - Lexical and grammatical environment, a case study: English territory vs Italian territorio - Limitations of the research - Conclusion - References - Index

O autorze

Dominic Stewart teaches linguistics and Italian-
English translation at the Department of
Humanities, University of Trento, Italy, having
previously taught at the Universities of Macerata,
Bologna and Verona. He publishes
mainly in the areas of corpus linguistics and
translation.