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Title: Constructions with Press_Mouth collocation
Vol. 2, 2017, pp. 40-52.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.004
Author: Temenuzhka Seizova-Nankova
About the author: Associate Professor Temenuzhka Seizova-Nankova, PhD was born in Troyan. She received her MA at Sofia University in 1977. Temenuzhka Seizova-Nankova worked as a teacher of English in her hometown and in FL school in Lovech. Since 1990 she has been a lecturer at the English Studies Department, Shumen University. She has published in various frameworks: TGG, FG. Seizova-Nankova (2016) is based on CxnG approach to Argument Structure (Goldberg, Croft, Herbst). By analysing 6279 tokens of corpus drawn from BNC by SkE, a delicacy scale of item-specific to more generalized ‘valency constructions’ of V_hand(s) collocations is revealed. All her work is strongly motivated by foreign language linguistics.
e-mail: tseizova@yahoo.com, seizova@shu.bg
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-1624
Author: Mehmed Muharem
About the author: MA student in Linguistics and Translation at the Department of English Studies at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Bulgaria.
Citation (APA style): Seizova-Nankova, T., & Muharem, M. (2017). Constructions with Press_Mouth collocation. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 40-52. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.004
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_040_052_13_EN.pdf
Abstract: The article examines the whole population of press_mouth collocation in order to explore the hypothesis of the construction as a basic linguistic unit used spontaneously by native speakers in discourse. The findings are relevant to foreign language learners especially whose own language (in this case Bulgarian) differs so dramatically from English.
Key words: collocations, directionality of relations, corpus-driven approach, ‘valency’ constructions, construction grammar
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