A CORPUS -BASED STUDY OF ENGLISH VERBS SYNONYMS : …

A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF ENGLISH VERBS SYNONYMS: GRIEVE, MOURN and REGRET

BY MS. CHATCHAWAN PANYAPAYATJATI

AN INDEPENDENT STUDY PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE

OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH FOR CAREERS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 COPYRIGHT OF THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

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A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF ENGLISH VERBS SYNONYMS: GRIEVE, MOURN and REGRET

BY MS. CHATCHAWAN PANYAPAYATJATI

AN INDEPENDENT STUDY PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE

OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH FOR CAREERS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 COPYRIGHT OF THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

Ref. code: 25595721040607PYC

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A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF ENGLISH VERBS SYNONYMS: GRIEVE, MOURN and REGRET Miss Chatchawan Panyapayatjati Master of Arts English for Careers Language Institute Thammasat University Assistant Professor Monnipha Somphong, Ph.D. 2016

ABSTRACT

This study investigated three English synonymous verbs, namely, grieve, mourn, and regret, focusing on referential meaning, grammatical patterns, and noun collocations. The data were extracted from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English online (LDOCE) in comparison to 600 concordance lines from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings showed that even though the words grieve, mourn, and regret can be considered synonyms of each other, the corpus analysis revealed that their semantic nuances, grammatical patterns and noun collocates are slightly different. Consequently, they cannot be replaceable in some context. In addition, the concordance lines also revealed that a corpus-based study presents authentic English language use and provided more information on meaning, grammatical pattern and collocation. Therefore, English learners can use corpus to enhance their knowledge of how English words are used naturally.

Keywords: near-synonyms, dictionary, corpus-based, concordance lines, referential meaning, grammatical patterns, collocation

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

On this occasion, I would like to extend my deepest thank you to all people who have helped me enormously to complete my study. First of all, I wholeheartedly express my deep and sincere gratitude to Assistant Professor Monnipha Somphong Ph.D., my master's project advisor, who dedicated her valuable time and great support to advise me throughout my research period. Moreover, my profound appreciation is extended to Assistant Professor Ketvalee Porkaew, Ph.D., the master's project chairman, for her constructive suggestions on this study. Likewise, my heartfelt gratefulness also goes to Ajarn Mark Zentz, my project's editor, for his language correction on this paper.

Second, I am deeply thankful to all the Language Institute's instructors who dedicated their time for teaching and enhancing my English skills throughout the course of study. In addition, I could not have completed all these stages without a good support from the administrative staff, especially Miss Siriwon Ritruamsup, Miss Pafun Rattanasing, and Miss Sujittra Changsaeng. Finally, I am profoundly grateful to my beloved family and my dear friends who always encouraged me during my tough times of MA study. With their encouragement, the moment of writing these acknowledgements has finally come to pass.

Last but not least, I really hope that this study will be useful for those whom are interested in a corpus-based study of verb synonyms. As English synonyms are one of the important aspects for English learners, the similarities and differences of synonyms should be known for effective use.

Miss Chatchawan Panyapayatjati

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