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In:Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication
Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 113] 2023
► pp. 108–123

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Chapter 6
run away!

Exploring the iceberg of core vocabulary with English-Spanish parallel corpora

 | University of León
Published online: 2 November 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113.06lab
Drawing on a previous translation-based study on the manner and path of motion in English and Spanish (Labrador 2018), this paper examines a tier-1 word (Beck et al. 2002), the verb run, with the aim of illustrating how parallel corpora can assist in revealing the iceberg underneath the tip of core vocabulary, i.e., in providing the co-text, uses and translations of basic words. The parallel corpus P-ACTRES has been used to analyze all the occurrences of run, comparing fiction and non-fiction, identifying the most frequent collocates, and contrasting its use followed by a satellite with the corresponding translations. The results show a more frequent use of this combination in fiction and crosslinguistic differences in terms of patterns and collocates in the expression of motion.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Tier-based approach
  • 3.The expression of path and manner of motion
  • 4.Analysis
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Intralinguistic stage
    • 5.2Interlinguistic stage
  • 6.Discussion and pedagogical implications
  • 7.Conclusions
  • References
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