CORPUS LINGUISTICS CAPABILITIES FOR RESEARCH OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUANTIFIERS
Derevyankina Svetlana Alekseevna
Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin
Abstract. The author considers the use of corpus analysis tools in the research of quantifiers in the English language, shows the advantages of corpus researches in comparison with traditional ones, and concludes that the research allows revealing the frequency of specific quantifiers occurrence, their collocability, the tendency of use in a number of stable collocations, as well as the inclination to particular speech styles and texts genres.
Key words and phrases: корпусная лингвистика, электронный корпус, частотность употребления языковых единиц, квантификаторы, corpus linguistics, electronic corpus, frequency of language units use, quantifiers
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