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Nominal tautological constructions (NTCs), as a special kind of syntactic and semantic structure, have aroused considerable interests among linguists from different perspectives. By analyzing the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Center for Chinese Linguistics PKU (CCL), this paper conducts a contrastive study of NTCs in English and Chinese, aiming to find out the similarities and differences on the one hand, and the cognitive interpretation on the other hand. The analysis of data from the COCA and CCL corpora shows that NTCs in English and Chinese exhibit different distributional features, providing a basis for further analysis. It is found that similarities of English and Chinese NTCs are often embodied in similar basic repetitive structures and similar semantic representation such as ‘acceptance, tolerance, or distinction’. The differences between English and Chinese NTCs lie in either the language-specific or culture-specific interpretation of some types of NTCs in each language. Finally, this paper tries to expound the cognitive interpretation of NTCs from the perspective of categorization and decategorization theory.

목차

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1 Definition of Tautological Constructions
2.2 Previous Studies on Tautological Constructions
3. The Comparative Study of NTCs in English and Chinese
3.1 Distributional Features of NTCs in English and Chinese
3.2 Formal and Semantic Features of English NTCs
3.3 Formal and Semantic Features of Chinese NTCs
3.4 Similarities and Differences between English and Chinese NTCs
4. Cognitive Interpretation of English and Chinese NTCs
4.1 Categorization Theory
4.2 Decategorization Theory
5. Conclusion
References

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저자

• Changqin Wang [ School of Foreign Languages, Yanbian University ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  언어학연구 [Journal of Linguistic Studies]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1226-9859

• 수록기간

  1996~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 700 DDC 400