Making sense of Corpus data: a case study of verbs of sound

• Beth Levin ^[1] ; Grace Song ^[1]
  1. [1] Northwestern University

     Northwestern University

     Township of Evanston, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: International journal of corpus linguistics, ISSN-e 1569-9811, ISSN 1384-6655, Vol. 2, Nº 1, 1997, págs. 23-64
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper demonstrates the essential role of corpus data in the development of a theory that explains and predicts word behavior. We make this point through a case study of verbs of sound, drawing our evidence primarily from the British National Corpus. We begin by considering pretheoretic notions of the verbs of sound as presented in corpus-based dictionaries and then contrast them with the predictions made by a theory of syntax, as represented by Chomsky's Government-Binding framework. We identify and classify the transitive uses of sixteen representative verbs of sound found in the corpus data. Finally, we consider what a linguistic account with both syntactic and lexical semantic components has to offer as an explanation of observed differences in the behavior of the sample verbs.

    Document Type: Research Article