„Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus

„Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus

The paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely...

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Main Author: Irina Stoyanova-Georgieva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen 2016-11-01
Series:Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
Subjects:
absolutely
collocation
bnc
bulgarian and british newspapers
Online Access:http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2016/SILC_2016_1_057-064_8_EN.pdf
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spelling doaj-848205cab0174c5683a9bf7ff99cd3b32021-01-20T17:37:57ZengKonstantin Preslavsky University of ShumenStudies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT2534-952X2534-95382016-11-011576410.46687/SILC.2016.v01.005„Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpusIrina Stoyanova-Georgieva0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4065-4917Department of English Studies, Shumen University, BulgariaThe paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely’ in English and Bulgarian as well as the resemblances in the choice of a syntactic position of the modified adjectives in both languages. http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2016/SILC_2016_1_057-064_8_EN.pdfabsolutelycollocationbncbulgarian and british newspapers
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„Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
absolutely
collocation
bnc
bulgarian and british newspapers
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author_sort Irina Stoyanova-Georgieva
title „Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
title_short „Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
title_full „Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
title_fullStr „Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
title_full_unstemmed „Absolutely“ modifying adjectives in British and Bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the British national corpus
title_sort „absolutely“ modifying adjectives in british and bulgarian newspapers in comparison with the british national corpus
publisher Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
series Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
issn 2534-952X
2534-9538
publishDate 2016-11-01
description The paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely’ in English and Bulgarian as well as the resemblances in the choice of a syntactic position of the modified adjectives in both languages.
topic absolutely
collocation
bnc
bulgarian and british newspapers
url http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2016/SILC_2016_1_057-064_8_EN.pdf
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