Some remarks on noun premodification in a Czech student corpus

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Some remarks on noun premodification in a Czech student corpus
Original language description
This chapter is concerned with the assessment of the variety of lexical items in the adjective position in complex noun phrases. The research is based on a small corpus of language produced by first-year students in university TEFL programmes. The chapter revisits some conclusions drawn previously from the analysis of this corpus, where one of the outcomes was an indication that the students' vocabulary was on an unsatisfactory level. Attention is focused mainly on the pre-modifying elements of the English head nouns in complex noun phrases - adjectives, nouns and -ing and -ed forms. The results provide partial information about their occurrence in the complement, too. The frequency of individual lexical items in the corpus is compared with the corpusfindings presented in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (LGSWE), (Biber et al., 1999). Post-modification of nouns and the complexity of the noun phrases that were collected are considered only superficially, but can contri
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA13-25982S" target="_blank" >GA13-25982S: Aspekty osvojování si anglického jazyka u českých studentů vstupujících do přípravného vzdělávání učitelů</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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