Open AccessA Corpus Based Study on the Colligation of The Time Machine
Author(s) -
Yi Zhu
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of linguistics, literature and translation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-0099
pISSN - 2617-0299
DOI - 10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.2.8
Subject(s) - attributive , collocation (remote sensing) , kannada , computer science , corpus linguistics , linguistics , george (robot) , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , object (grammar) , philosophy , machine learning
The past 50 years have witnessed huge progress and great evolution in Corpus Linguistics. Corpus Linguistics and colligation have their solid philosophy foundations. Colligation is believed to be the co-occurrence of the node words and abstract grammatical categories; thus, it can be an abstract reflection of certain writing habits in language use. The Time Machine is a famous science fiction written by George Herbert Wells. Through the study of colligation in this science fiction, the author tends to use different writing techniques and typical collocation. The result shows that the attributive clause is widely adopted in the text, followed by the object clause. The flaws of the software CLAWS Tagger are also discovered through the study.