1st Edition
Dependency Structures from Syntax to Discourse A Corpus Study of Journalistic English
By Hongxin Zhang
Copyright 2024
296 Pages
54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse levels, seeking to unravel the language patterns of real-life usage.
With a focus on rank-frequency distribution, the author investigates the distribution of linguistic properties/units from the perspectives of properties, motifs and sequencings. At... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Literature Review and the Present Study 3. Diversification Processes and Least Effort Principle 4. Research Materials and Methods 5. Syntactic Dependency Relations and Related Properties 6. Discourse Dependency Relations 7. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Hongxin (Maria) Zhang is a lecturer at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China. Her main research interests include quantitative linguistics, dependency grammar, synergetic linguistics and discourse studies.
