Towards a Part-of-Speech (PoS) Gram Approach to Corpus-based Phraseology

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.04.002

Abstract

Abstract:

One of the primary concerns in corpus linguistics is phraseology. This study first gives an extensive review of previous studies on phraseology in corpus linguistics, and then proposes a new approach to corpus-based phraseology studies, i.e., the Part-of-Speech (PoS) gram procedure. After giving a brief introduction to its definition and key features, this study also addresses the implications of this approach in four different fields of study, including the extraction and analysis of phraseologies, the function of phraseologies, textual studies, and language teaching and learning. It is argued that although this approach has long been ignored in international and domestic linguistic studies, it can provide phraseology studies with new perspectives, new tools, and new findings, which can be a useful supplement to existing approaches and worthy of further exploration and application.

Key words: phraseology, Part-of-Speech grams, multi-word sequences, corpus linguistics, N-grams

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LIN Ling, LIU Ming. Towards a Part-of-Speech (PoS) Gram Approach to Corpus-based Phraseology[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2025, 25(4): 15-27.

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类别	2词	3词	4词	5词	6词	7词	8词
n-gram(形符)	376777	309419	103459	21902	3961	964	411
PoS-gram(类符)	1340	8801	11930	5356	1062	110	6

排序	词性序列	频数	示例
1	PRP AT0 NN1 PRF AT0 NN1	20,932	at the end of the day
2	PRP AT0 AJ0 NN1 PRF AT0	5,784	on the other side of the
3	AT0 AJ0 NN1 PRF AT0 NN1	4,024	the other side of the scale
4	AT0 NN1 PRF AT0 AJ0 NN1	3,768	the end of the Cold War
5	NN1 PRP AT0 NN1 PRF AT0	3,194	light at the end of the
6	AT0 NN1 PRP AT0 NN1 PRF	3,035	an increase in the number of
7	PRP AT0 NN1 PRF DPS NN1	2,991	for the rest of his life
8	AT0 NN1 PRF AT0 NN1 PRF	2,955	a hell of a lot of
9	PRP AT0 NN1 PRF AT0 AJ0	2,634	at the end of a long
10	VVN PRP AT0 NN1 PRF AT0	2,229	brought to the attention of the

排序	示例	频数	排序	示例	频数
1	at the end of the day	747	11	by the end of the month	108
2	by the end of the year	441	12	before the end of the year	104
3	in the middle of the night	273	13	on the edge of the bed	104
4	at the end of the year	230	14	at the beginning of the year	91
5	by the end of the century	220	15	by the department of the environment	90
6	at the turn of the century	207	16	on the floor of the house	84
7	at the end of the month	178	17	in the middle of the road	83
8	by the end of the decade	130	18	for the rest of the day	82
9	at the end of the season	113	19	at the back of the house	80
10	at the end of the war	111	20	in the middle of the room	80