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Lexical and morphological priming

A holistic phraseological analysis of the Finnish time expression kello

Abstract

Using the International Corpus of Learner Finnish, this study examines Finnish time expressions and the lexical item kello (‘watch, time, o’clock’), which is overused by learners of Finnish. The chapter provides a holistic phraseological account of kello that includes not only its collocates but also its morphological priming, n-grams and semantic associations. Previous studies on phraseology have mostly concentrated on languages like English, which have little inflection with the result that morphology has rarely been touched upon in phraseology studies. The results suggest that the analysis of learner language benefits from a holistic approach to phraseology and that morphological priming as well as semantic preference play an important role in the learner language phraseology.

Abstract

Using the International Corpus of Learner Finnish, this study examines Finnish time expressions and the lexical item kello (‘watch, time, o’clock’), which is overused by learners of Finnish. The chapter provides a holistic phraseological account of kello that includes not only its collocates but also its morphological priming, n-grams and semantic associations. Previous studies on phraseology have mostly concentrated on languages like English, which have little inflection with the result that morphology has rarely been touched upon in phraseology studies. The results suggest that the analysis of learner language benefits from a holistic approach to phraseology and that morphological priming as well as semantic preference play an important role in the learner language phraseology.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Foreword ix
  5. Introduction xi
  6. Part I. Discourse analysis
  7. Cohesion and coherence in a content-specific corpus 3
  8. A corpus-based investigation into English representations of Turks and Ottomans in the early modern period 41
  9. Forced lexical primings in transdiscoursive political messaging 67
  10. Can lexical priming be detected in conversation turn-taking strategies? 93
  11. Part II. Similes, synonymy and metaphors
  12. Lexical priming and the selection and sequencing of synonyms 121
  13. Lexical priming and metaphor – Evidence of nesting in metaphoric language 141
  14. Teaching near-synonyms more effectively 163
  15. Part III. Collocations, associations and priming
  16. Lexical priming and register variation 189
  17. Colligational effects of collocation 231
  18. Part IV. Language learning and teaching
  19. Lexical and morphological priming 253
  20. Concordancing lexical primings 273
  21. Notes on authors 297
  22. Index 303
Lexical Priming
This chapter is in the book Lexical Priming
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.79.10jar

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Foreword ix
  5. Introduction xi
  6. Part I. Discourse analysis
  7. Cohesion and coherence in a content-specific corpus 3
  8. A corpus-based investigation into English representations of Turks and Ottomans in the early modern period 41
  9. Forced lexical primings in transdiscoursive political messaging 67
  10. Can lexical priming be detected in conversation turn-taking strategies? 93
  11. Part II. Similes, synonymy and metaphors
  12. Lexical priming and the selection and sequencing of synonyms 121
  13. Lexical priming and metaphor – Evidence of nesting in metaphoric language 141
  14. Teaching near-synonyms more effectively 163
  15. Part III. Collocations, associations and priming
  16. Lexical priming and register variation 189
  17. Colligational effects of collocation 231
  18. Part IV. Language learning and teaching
  19. Lexical and morphological priming 253
  20. Concordancing lexical primings 273
  21. Notes on authors 297
  22. Index 303
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