Abstract

The paper is concerned with the single-clause when-definition, which is a common folk-defining style that has been established by lexicographers in English monolingual learners’ dictionaries (the Big Five), especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. In brief, the single-clause when-definition format can be applied to explain the meaning of abstract nouns and it closely resembles the double-clause (full-sentence) definition, which can also begin with a subordinating conjunction such as when or if. However, the when-definition does not include the word which is being defined (definiendum) and it is formed out of a single, subordinate clause. This definition-type has received metalexicographers’ attention as it appears to, in general, limit the effectiveness of correct extraction of word class information from abstract noun entries in contrast to the traditional defining model – the analytical definition. In this paper, an attempt is made to investigate two types of single-clause when-defining models: (1) when + personal pronoun; and (2) when + indefinite pronoun (someone/something).1¹ The collected evidence from the Linear Mixed-effects Modelling analysis indicates that the effect of when-definition type on syntactic class identification accuracy is statistically significant at the 8% level of significance, with the when + personal pronoun defining style being the superior defining model.

中文翻译：

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英语单语教学词典中的单句时定义模型

摘要

本文关注的是-定义时的单子句，这是词典编纂者在英语单语学习者词典（“大五国”）（尤其是《朗文现代英语词典》和《剑桥高级学习者》）中建立的一种常见的民间定义风格。字典。简而言之，单引则时-定义格式可用于解释抽象名词的含义，它非常类似于双引子（全句）定义，该定义也可以以从属连词开始，例如when或if。但是，当-definition不包含正在定义的词时（definiendum），它是由一个从属子句组成的。与传统的定义模型（分析定义）相比，这种定义类型已经引起了金属地貌学家的关注，因为它通常限制了从抽象名词条目中正确提取词类信息的有效性。在本文中，我们尝试研究两种在定义模型时的单子句：（1）when +人称代词；和（2）when +不定代词（某人/某物） .1 ¹从线性混合效应模型分析收集的证据表明，何时定义 类型对句法 类别 识别的影响 准确度在8％的显着性水平上具有统计学意义，而时代+人称代词定义风格是上等的定义模型。