Adjectives as nominal pre-modifiers in chemistry and applied
linguistics research articles
This chapter analyzes the use of attributive
adjectives as nominal pre-modifiers in two corpora: CorAChem (Corpus
of Articles in Chemistry) and CorAAL (Corpus of Articles in Applied
Linguistics) composed of 150 articles each. Our aim is to understand
the use of pre-modifying adjectives in noun phrases (NPs),
considering which adjectives are used as well as the NP size and
frequency across disciplines. The results show that both corpora
carry more classifiers than descriptors. Nevertheless, each
discipline favors the use of adjectives with specific functions.
Both corpora use long premodifying sequences, but CorAChem carries a
greater number of longer sequences. The use of long NPs may affect
understanding due to the interrelation among the NP constituents as
shown in CorAChem.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methods
- 3.Results and discussion
- 3.1NP lexical similarities
- 3.2Types of attributive adjectives and their NP function
- 3.3NP size and NP sequence frequency
- 4.Conclusion
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Notes
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