Linguistic corpuses as a digital means of comparative analyses of size adjectives (on basis of English and Tatar)
- DOI
- 10.2991/mtde-19.2019.165How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- size adjective, frequency, synonyms
- Abstract
The article is devoted to demonstrate how digital means are used in linguistic comparative analyses. The research is proved to be actual because size adjectives help to understand naïve language pictures of the world. The purpose of the article is to reveal differences in functioning size adjectives in English and Tatar. The methods of digital quantative analysis and a descriptive method were used. The sources for the collection and systematization of linguistic material were British National Corpus (https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/) and Tatar National Corpus (http://web-corpora.net/TatarCorpus/search/). The research is carried out in line with those linguistic works where the idea of using statistic data is developed. The most frequent size adjective in Tatar is the adjective zur, the most frequent size adjective in English is the adjective little. The size adjectives thick / yuan have the same frequency in both languages. In Tatar the size adjectives ozyn and kechkene have the same frequency. In English size adjectives long-high-wide are distributed with different frequencies. When analyzing quantitative data using digital means of linguistic corpuses, it is necessary: first, to take into account the combining potential; secondly, to take into account synonyms.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - G.F. Lutfullina AU - G.Z. Gilyazieva PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Linguistic corpuses as a digital means of comparative analyses of size adjectives (on basis of English and Tatar) BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Conference "Modern Management Trends and the Digital Economy: from Regional Development to Global Economic Growth" (MTDE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 805 EP - 809 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/mtde-19.2019.165 DO - 10.2991/mtde-19.2019.165 ID - Lutfullina2019/05 ER -