Corpus OVER

 
LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ
  Authors
Col, Gilles
  Item identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-5175
 Referenced by
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-and-cognition/article/an-instructionbased-analysis-of-over/60D2D272843280D6515931CB3D113A92
 Date issued
2014
 Type
corpus, text
 Size
326 sentences
 Language(s)
English
 Description
Many studies in cognitive linguistics have analysed the semantics of 'over', notably the semantics associated with 'over' as a preposition. Most of them generally conclude that 'over' is polysemic and this polysemy is to be described thanks to a semantic radial network, showing the relationships between the different meanings of the word. What we would like to suggest on the contrary is that the meanings of 'over' are highly dependent on the utterance context in which its occurrences are embedded, and consequently that the meaning of 'over' itself is under-specified, rather than polysemic. Moreover, to provide a more accurate account of the apparent wide range of meanings of 'over' in context, we ought to take into account the other uses of this unit: as an adverb and particle, and not only as a preposition. In this paper, we provide a corpus-based description of 'over' which leads us to propose a monosemic definition. ,So as to achiev such a description, we used a short dataset of randomly selected 326 sentences containing 'over' in various positions in the sentences and corresponding to various categories.
 Publisher
Université de Poitiers
 Subject(s)
over semantics instruction corpus-data
 Collection(s)
LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ Data & Tools
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corpus of 326 sentences with "over"
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1) A6F 390 The NUM's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules (over a pre-strike ballot) and for contempt.
2) ABJ 2891 Now the political consequences have spilled over into Belorussia, and especially into the Gomel area, the part of Belorussia nearest Chernobyl. 
3) AC4 1742 They were leaning forward facing each other, one on either side of Tug, looming over him. 
4) ACS 1101 All over the country, and particularly in American libraries abroad run by the International Information Administration, intelligent men rushed to destroy books by �suspect� authors, embracing among others Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, Theodore Dreiser and Edmund Wilson. 
5) ADH 362 This information is all the more important because of the official nature of coins, which thereby gives them an advantage over other more private inscriptions. 
6) ADM 213 I added quickly, as the appalled expression of a visitor singled out by a . . .