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Kanokwan Phongpanya; Natcha Khamhaengrit; Atikhom Thienthong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
While synonymy has been extensively studied, few studies have examined the ditransitive construction of synonyms across English varieties. Informed by construction grammar viewing pattern-meaning combinations as constructions and using a 1.9-billion-word corpus of texts from 20 countries, this article analyzes four different ways of expressing…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shutt, Montakarn; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The purpose of this research is to investigate the variable production of English Object-Experiencer (OE) psych predicates among 80 L1 Thai EFL first-year university students. Psych verbs are notable for posing difficulty for learners due to a unique property that violates Grimshaw's (1990) Thematic Hierarchy. The participants were given a cloze…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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Chareonkul, Chanakarn; Raksangob Wijitsopon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
The present study adopts a corpus-driven perspective to an analysis of the 'current relevance' meaning, a central meaning of the present perfect, in general and textbook corpora. The term 'current relevance' refers to a meaning of the present perfect, in which a past action or event is shown to be connected with the present time in some ways. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Morphemes, Grammar, Textbooks