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same for a corpus of a more specialized nature.
Accordingly, my case study in Chapter 6 revealed only 4 specific semantic groups of
adjectives in the pattern A DJ about N from my corpora, and other adjectives not categorized
into any particular semantic groups based on my interpretation. For this reason, I attempted to
only look at the semantic groups that I originally found from my data in the current study.
Nevertheless, in this small section I follow and present the semantic groups borrowed from
Francis et al. (1998), in order to systematically present the profile of semantic groups of the
adjectives in the pattern in my corpora,. (N.B. the profile of semantic groups in this section
simply reflects general tendencies with regard to what sort of semantic groups occur in my
corpora in the case of the framework of Francis et al. (1998); they do not completely reflect
the full facts of adjective use in the patterns investigated in ALC and BC). Based on the list of
semantic groups in Francis et al. (1998), Table 7.5 below summarizes the top five
high-frequency semantic groups of adjectives in each prepositional type of the pattern A DJ
PR EP N in ALC and BC. (Note again that the semantic groups presented here will later be
revised in the discourse analysis part of the current study as in the case study in Chapter 6). 32
Table 7.5 includes some low-frequency patterns that include less than five semantic groups,
because adjectives in such patterns are categorized into only a small number of semantic
groups based on Francis et al. (1998).
32 Francis et al. (1998) list 23 semantic groups in the pattern A DJ about N, 8 groups in A DJ against N, 5 groups in A DJ as
N, 5 groups in A DJ as to wh-, 3 groups in A DJ at N, 5 groups in A DJ between N, 10 groups in ADJ by N, 15 groups in
A DJ for N, 9 group in A DJ from N, 20 groups in A DJ in N, 16 groups in A DJ of N, 13 groups in ADJ on N, 8 groups in
A DJ over N, 20 groups in A DJ to N, 19 groups in A DJ with N, and 4 groups in A DJ toward(s) N.
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