Author(s)

Chenjiao Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Chenjiao Yang

ABSTRACT

Based on idiomatic principle put forward by Sinclair, this study adopts a corpus-drivenapproach to analyze and explore the collocational pattern want [NP V-ing] from the phraseological level. Results suggest that want [NP V-ing], which has received relatively little attention, is becoming increasingly important in spoken English. It tends to collocate with negatives such as "not" and colligates with modal auxiliaries, having a negative semantic prosody since it always has words like "bad idea, difficult, freak, revenge" around which can give pragmatic function of warning and request at the same time.

KEYWORDS

Collocational Pattern; Want; Idiomatic Principle

CITE THIS PAPER

Chenjiao Yang, A Corpus-based Analysis of Collocational Patterns: Taking Want [NP V-ing] for Example. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 109-113. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080115.

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