Absolutely Modifying Adjectives In British And Bulgarian Newspapers In Comparison With The British National Corpus
Absolutely Modifying Adjectives In British And Bulgarian Newspapers In Comparison With The British National Corpus
Author(s): Irina Stoyanova-GeorgievaSubject(s): Foreign languages learning, Media studies, Comparative Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: absolutely; collocation; BNC; Bulgarian and British newspapers
Summary/Abstract: The paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely’ in English and Bulgarian as well as the resemblances in the choice of a syntactic position of the modified adjectives in both languages.
Journal: Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
- Issue Year: 1/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 57-64
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English, Bulgarian