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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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Preeyanan Assawawattanasuntorn; Vanlee Siriganjanavong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This corpus-based study investigates the similarities and differences among the three synonymous adjectives: "careful," "cautious," and "wary" in terms of genre distribution, collocational patterns, semantic preference, and semantic prosody. Data were drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, English (Second Language)