轮机英语中名词短语特殊结构的语义关系分析

摘要

为分析轮机英语中名词短语之间的语义结构和语义关系,以便轮机员更好地理解专业词汇,运用SPSS软件,通过卡方检测比较自建MEE语料库和线上FROWN语料库.根据名词+名词16种语义关系理论(参见BIBER D, et al.Longman grammar of spoken and written English[M].Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000: 589-596),分析自建MEE语料库中名词短语之间的语义结构和语义关系.得出结论:(1)轮机英语和通识英语中的名词短语存在显著性差异.(2)轮机英语中"名词+名词"结构短语覆盖了全部16种语义关系,其中超过10%的为目的关系、识别关系和专有属性关系;"名词+名词+名词"结构短语的语义关系可分为3种类型的树结构,每种类型的语义角色的分布频率不同.%In order to analyze the semantic structures and semantic relations between the noun phrases in the Marine Engineering English (MEE) so as to make marine engineers better understand specialized vocabulary, SPSS is applied to compare the self-built MEE corpus and the online FROWN corpus by Chi-square test.Based on the theory of 16 classifications of semantic relations of noun + noun (see BIBER D, et al.Longman grammar of spoken and written English[M].Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000: 589-596), the semantic structures and semantic relations are analyzed for the self-built MEE corpus.The conclusions are as follows.(1)There is a significant difference between the MEE and common English in noun phrases.(2)The phrases of "noun + noun" structure in the MEE covers all 16 classifications of semantic relations, where the semantic relations of more than 10% is for the purpose of Purpose, Identity and Specialization;the semantic relations of "noun + noun + noun" structure phrases is grouped into 3 types of tree structures, and for each type, the distribution frequency of the semantic role is different.