A Corpus-Based Study of Semantic Categorizations of Attracted Adjectives to the it BE ADJ clause Construction

Jiaojiao Wang and Jiangping Zhou

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 21582440221091242

Abstract: By implementing such corpus approaches as collexeme analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, this paper investigates the semantic categorizations of adjectives that are extremely significantly attracted to the it BE ADJ clause construction in English. The findings demonstrate that these adjectives could be at least subdivided into seven different semantic clusters that denote (1) importance, necessity, and possibility; (2) appropriateness, reasonability, and unreality; (3) impracticability and irrelevance; (4) undeniability and axiomaticity; (5) obviousness; (6) dubiety, desirability, and ease; (7) improbability and anomalousness.

Keywords: attracted adjectives; it BE ADJ clause construction; semantic categorizations; collexeme analysis; hierarchical cluster analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440221091242

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