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日本英語表現学会 紀要『英語表現研究』第 24 号 英文梗概
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English Usage and Style No.24 Synopsis
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Lexis, the Most Delicate Grammar ── Nominal Group Heads Determining Experiential Grammar
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| This paper, from systemic functional perspective, reports the results of a study of the distribution of nominal group heads across the major elements of clause structure in terms of experiential grammar. The distribution of 38 head nouns was examined, using concordanced data from the Australian Corpus of English (ACE). The results lead to the following observations: 1) that nominal group heads, and hence nominal groups, are unevenly distributed across grammatical categories; 2) that a head noun tends to have a different syntagmatic environment according to the constituent it is realising; 3) that different senses of a noun display different grammatical behaviour; 4) that the syntagmatic patterns in which nominal group heads are involved tend to cut across rank boundaries; and 5) that a focus on nouns as the central elements of clauses will reveal the syntagmatic restrictions on some of the most common lexico-grammatical patterns in the language. |
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