| dc.contributor | 英文系 | - |
| dc.creator (作者) | 鍾曉芳 | - |
| dc.creator (作者) | Chen, Yu-Ching;Chung, Siaw-Fong | - |
| dc.date (日期) | 2026-08 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 18-May-2026 13:24:53 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 18-May-2026 13:24:53 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 18-May-2026 13:24:53 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | https://ah.lib.nccu.edu.tw/item?item_id=182641 | - |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | ‘Ending’ is a universal concept that most people encounter in their daily lives. ‘Ending’ experience can span various uses such as time, life, relationships, and events. Expressions associated with ‘ending’ are frequently used in everyday language. Beyond their literal meanings, these lexical expressions also carry significant cognitive and emotional weight that implies closure or transformation. Previous studies on lexical meaning have primarily focused on comparisons of expressions with similar transitivity. In contrast, research on phrases related to the concept of ‘ending’ with different transitivity remains relatively scarce. This corpus-based study investigates three English verb phrases that express the notion of ending: put an end to, bring an end to, and come to an end. It aims to analyze and compare their collocational patterns and semantic prosody. A total of 247 noun collocates were collected from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and categorized into 18 semantic groups using WordNet. These collocates were then analyzed for their evaluative tone as positive, neutral, or negative. The findings show notable differences in collocational patterns and semantic prosody across the three phrases. Due to their higher transitivity, put an end to and bring an end to frequently collocate with terms related to human actions, though put an end to is used in smaller-scale contexts, while bring an end to typically appears in formal, political, or historical settings, and displays the highest rate of negative prosody. In contrast, come to an end, a less transitive phrase, co-occurs with a broader range of terms related to time, life experiences, and natural processes, and shows predominantly neutral prosody. These findings offer valuable insights for second language teaching and help learners more accurately grasp the pragmatic use and meaning of phrases. | - |
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| dc.format.mimetype | text/html | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | Applied Corpus Linguistics, Vol.6, No.2, 100215 | - |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Semantics of Ending; Collocation; Semantic Prosody; Transitivity | - |
| dc.title (題名) | Ending in English: Collocation, Semantic Preference, Prosody, and Transitivity in Put an End to, Bring an End to, and Come to an End | - |
| dc.type (資料類型) | article | - |
| dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.1016/j.acorp.2026.100215 | - |
| dc.doi.uri (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2026.100215 | - |
