关键词: 同义词组; 短语学; 搭配; 类联接; 语义倾向; 语义韵

Abstract: The bulk of literature on the contrastive study of synonyms’ phraseological features under the theory of corpus linguistics has focused on individual words rather than phrases. The present study adopts a corpus-based approach to explore the usage of synonymous phrases in the framework of extended unit of meaning, referring to the theory of Phraseology. Three phrases are selected based on their high frequency in corpus: lead to, bring about and result in. The sample synonyms in this research are retrieved with AntConc and analyzed in COCA and CLEC to find out different phraseological features in four dimensions: collocation, colligation, semantic preference and prosody. Then, a contrastive analysis will be conducted to induce the deviated usage by EFL learners from native speakers to reveal their inconsistent grammatical patterns, semantic fields and emotional attitudes. The research findings demonstrate that the number of collocates of these synonyms in COCA is much larger; their colligations in COCA are more varied; their semantic preferences are more diverse; their prosodies form a hierarchy of attitudes. In contrast, the synonyms’ collocates in CLEC are fewer than those in COCA; the colligations of these three synonyms in CLEC are simpler than those in COCA; the synonyms’ semantic preferences in CLEC are less complicated than those in COCA; the synonyms’ prosodies in CLEC are almost similar: negative with little positive, unlike those in COCA, which boast hierarchical attitudes and feelings.

Keywords: synonym; phraseology; collocation; colligation; semantic preference; prosody