Aston Corpus PG Conference 22 May 2008

Aston Corpus PG Conference22 May 2008 • Taking a ‘Drive’ • Fanie Tsiamita • University of Liverpool • Fanie.Tsiamita@liverpool.ac.uk Fanie Tsiamita

Introduction (I) • Polysemy: • The case of one lexical item having two or more related senses, all going back to a single etymological root. Examples: mouth; tail; fork • Lexical Priming • “Every word is primed for use in discourse as a result of the cumulative effects of an individual’s encounters with the word” (Hoey, 2005) Fanie Tsiamita

Introduction (III) • Lexical Priming – Its implications for polysemy • The senses of a polysemous lexical item will be disambiguated by their primings. • The more common sense may use the primings of the less common sense. The less common sense never will. • Two similarly common senses will avoid each other’s primings. • Where neither of the above applies, the effect will be humour, ambiguity or a new meaning combining the two senses. Fanie Tsiamita

Methodology • BNC subcorpus <w fict prose> • 844 instances in a total of 432 texts ( 17,000,000 words) • Instances were grouped according to senses • dictionaries provided guidelines for the grouping • 12 senses found • Determination of the primings of the two most frequent senses of drive: • “journey in a car or other vehicle” (26%) • “wide piece of hard ground or private road leading from the road to a person’s house” (47%) Fanie Tsiamita

Drive (=journey) & drive (=private road) + determiners. Why? 1. The vast majority of instances of both senses co- occur with the definite / indefinite article: Fanie Tsiamita

Proportion of instances of drive (=journey) and drive (=private road) occurring with an article Fanie Tsiamita

And 2. While the instances of drive (=journey) show equal distribution between the two determiners, drive (=private road) co-occurs 9 times more frequently with the definite than with the indefinite article: Fanie Tsiamita

Distribution of the instances of drive (=journey) and drive (=private road) between the definite and the indefinite article Fanie Tsiamita

Potential Primings (I) • Semantic preferences of drive (=journey) and drive (=private road) when preceded by the sequence determiner + pre-modification Fanie Tsiamita

Results (I) • Determiner + pre-mod. + drive (=journey) Fanie Tsiamita

Results (I) • Determiner + pre-mod. + drive (=journey) • Evaluation • Distance / Duration • Duration • Distance • Time-of-day • Classifier • Shape Fanie Tsiamita

Semantic preferences of drive (=journey) when preceded by determiner + premodification Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassing drive of my life! The car fad • nd and make the slow, crawling drive across town to his home • and plentiful. After the long drive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During the short drive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on the short drive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After the long drive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During the short drive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on the short drive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make thefifteen-minutedrive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for thewholedrive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make thefifteen-minutedrive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for thewholedrive back to Perugia. How co • ly that thefourteen-kilometredrive from the airport was so • bus for thethirteen-kilometredrive to the city. She was fo • efence. During thetwenty-miledrive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make thefifteen-minutedrive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for thewholedrive back to Perugia. How co • ly that thefourteen-kilometredrive from the airport was so • bus for thethirteen-kilometredrive to the city. She was fo • efence. During thetwenty-miledrive, once he had left his o • peak much during theafternoondrive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long nightdrive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began the curving drive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make thefifteen-minutedrive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for thewholedrive back to Perugia. How co • ly that thefourteen-kilometredrive from the airport was so • bus for thethirteen-kilometredrive to the city. She was fo • efence. During thetwenty-miledrive, once he had left his o • peak much during theafternoondrive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long nightdrive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began thecurvingdrive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was a hard, fast drive through the congested s • ot. No. I want a nice peaceful drive across the fields, than • ime for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was a long drive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be a longish drive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was a short drive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than a three-hour drive from here, he thought, • house was only a few minutes' drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was a thirty-mile drive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after a thousand-mile drive, stained with the black • wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villag • ore you set off for an evening drive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was a long drive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be a longish drive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was a short drive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than a three-hour drive from here, he thought, • house was only a few minutes' drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was a thirty-mile drive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after a thousand-mile drive, stained with the black • wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villag • ore you set off for an evening drive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was alongdrive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be alongishdrive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was ashortdrive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than a three-hour drive from here, he thought, • house was only a few minutes' drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was a thirty-mile drive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after a thousand-mile drive, stained with the black • wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villag • ore you set off for an evening drive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was alongdrive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be alongishdrive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was ashortdrive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than athree-hourdrive from here, he thought, • house was only afew minutes'drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was a thirty-mile drive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after a thousand-mile drive, stained with the black • wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villag • ore you set off for an evening drive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was alongdrive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be alongishdrive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was ashortdrive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than athree-hourdrive from here, he thought, • house was only afew minutes'drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was athirty-miledrive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after athousand-miledrive, stained with the black • wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villag • ore you set off for an evening drive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was alongdrive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be alongishdrive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was ashortdrive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than athree-hourdrive from here, he thought, • house was only afew minutes'drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was athirty-miledrive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after athousand-miledrive, stained with the black • wished to go for anafternoondrive around the local villag • ore you set off for aneveningdrive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for a test drive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Indefinite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • e pillion. It was ahard, fastdrive through the congested s • ot. No. I want anice peacefuldrive across the fields, than • ime for apleasant comfortabledrive to Carpendens Court. Sh • his back on her. It was alongdrive from the airport, made • uting now, "It'll be alongishdrive; ask Mary to put someth • he belonged to. It was ashortdrive from the city. Harvey h • holiday more than athree-hourdrive from here, he thought, • house was only afew minutes'drive away from the river. Fr • the cab. It was athirty-miledrive. They took the side roa • ndscreen after athousand-miledrive, stained with the black • wished to go for anafternoondrive around the local villag • ore you set off for aneveningdrive?&equo; He shook his hea • e took me out in it for atestdrive. Yes, that's it. We wer • n it!" He took them for atestdrive and then Mrs Lomax drov Fanie Tsiamita

Results (II) • Determiner + pre-mod. + drive (=private road) Fanie Tsiamita

Results (II) • Determiner + pre-mod. + drive (=private road) • Size • Material • Attribute • Shape • Classifier • Part-of • Position • Possession Fanie Tsiamita

Semantic preferences of drive (=private road) when preceded by determiner + premodification Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up the short drive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on the wide circular drive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? The gravelled drive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on the frozen gravel drive. An orderly at the door • squealing on the loose gravel drive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down the shady drive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into the sun-dappled drive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along the tree-lined drive of the convent through • a turned down the long curving drive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides the long access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewide circular drive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? The gravelled drive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on the frozen gravel drive. An orderly at the door • squealing on the loose gravel drive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down the shady drive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into the sun-dappled drive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along the tree-lined drive of the convent through • a turned down thelong curving drive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelong access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewide circular drive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? Thegravelleddrive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on the frozen graveldrive. An orderly at the door • squealing on the loose graveldrive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down the shady drive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into the sun-dappled drive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along the tree-lined drive of the convent through • a turned down thelong curving drive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelong access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewide circular drive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? Thegravelleddrive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on thefrozengraveldrive. An orderly at the door • squealing on theloosegraveldrive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down thedarkdrive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down theshadydrive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into thesun-dappleddrive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along thetree-lineddrive of the convent through • a turned down thelong curving drive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelong access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewidecirculardrive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? Thegravelleddrive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on thefrozengraveldrive. An orderly at the door • squealing on theloosegraveldrive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down thedarkdrive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down theshadydrive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into thesun-dappleddrive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along thetree-lineddrive of the convent through • a turned down thelongcurvingdrive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down thewindingdrive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelong access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested theill-fateddrive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassingdrive of my life! The car fad • nd and make theslow, crawlingdrive across town to his home • and plentiful. After thelongdrive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During theshortdrive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on theshortdrive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make thefifteen-minutedrive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for thewholedrive back to Perugia. How co • ly that thefourteen-kilometredrive from the airport was so • bus for thethirteen-kilometredrive to the city. She was fo • efence. During thetwenty-miledrive, once he had left his o • peak much during theafternoondrive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long nightdrive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began thecurvingdrive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassing drive of my life! The car fad • nd and make the slow, crawling drive across town to his home • and plentiful. After the long drive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During the short drive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on the short drive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he began thecurvingdrive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=journey) • ho had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford, the man who • I've had the most embarrassing drive of my life! The car fad • nd and make the slow, crawling drive across town to his home • and plentiful. After the long drive a good soak was just wh • cate herself. During the short drive back to the inn they we • rivin'." He dozed on the short drive, but unfortunately he w • ich to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day. • ad tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia. How co • ly that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was so • bus for the thirteen-kilometre drive to the city. She was fo • efence. During the twenty-mile drive, once he had left his o • peak much during the afternoon drive. And they didn't stop t • e exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast, but I sud • arily, as he beganthecurvingdrive down the east side of t Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewidecirculardrive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? Thegravelleddrive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on thefrozengraveldrive. An orderly at the door • squealing on theloosegraveldrive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down thedarkdrive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down theshadydrive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into thesun-dappleddrive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along thetree-lineddrive of the convent through • a turned down thelongcurvingdrive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down thewindingdrive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelong access drive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into the private drive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • &equo; They drove up theshortdrive, past a lodge with a ro • d outside on thewidecirculardrive carriages would have lo • hing in plastic? Thegravelleddrive split into two; one bra • ed loudly on thefrozengraveldrive. An orderly at the door • squealing on theloosegraveldrive. Tight-lipped, she drov • walked with her down thedarkdrive and took her as far as • isurely fashion down theshadydrive. Suddenly Cora-Beth sto • aring out into thesun-dappleddrive flanked by swaying tree • nockglen, along thetree-lineddrive of the convent through • a turned down thelongcurvingdrive of the house, pulled th • d the Porsche down thewindingdrive to Tavey Grange. Leonor • slope. Besides thelongaccessdrive that climbed into the t • rtible nipped into theprivatedrive to the apartment block Fanie Tsiamita

Definite article + pre-modification + drive (=private road) • ry was coming down the factory drive. But behind the wheel w • At the bottom, where the hotel drive met the highway, he hal • toy, coming fast up the house drive before turning sharply • is walk home where the rectory drive curved and the bushes g • as they drove up the adjoining drive and felt a surge of ver • he strolled out into the front drive, Mr McWhirter was being • On his way he passed the main drive, and he could see that • a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and, after • er driving up the Dersingham's drive on Saturday morning? Mi • via turned into the Fourniers' drive she saw that she had be • fter appearing in the Julians' drive on Friday night? The sa • refully up the twisting canyon drive, and began to die insi Fanie Tsiamita

Aston Corpus PG Conference 22 May 2008

Aston Corpus PG Conference 22 May 2008

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