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A Syntactic Account for the Power of Verbs within X-Phemism: A Corpus-Base Exploration

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  • Maather Al-Rawi
  • Nuha Al-Shurafa

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The main aim of this paper is to examine the syntactic status of a selected text-corpus focus, with a special focus on the verb within its Verb-Phrase. The major claim is that the power of the verb in its VP is loaded syntactically through which the speaker’s desire of the doublespeak within X-Phemism is achieved. In order to fulfill this claim, a corpus-based exploration is applied on the selected data produced in Standard English. The analysis is accounted for a conceptualization of grammar that is based on general syntactic constraints on a well-formedness. The syntactic conceptualization (Chomsky, 2000; Ouhalla, 2002) is selected in its broad sense, as the basic framework where it best captures the syntactic role played by the verb-predicate and its various arguments.

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  • Maather Al-Rawi & Nuha Al-Shurafa, 2016. "A Syntactic Account for the Power of Verbs within X-Phemism: A Corpus-Base Exploration," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(7), pages 1-87, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:9:y:2016:i:7:p:87
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