Four sampled corpora have been used for a quantitative analysis on usage of past participles(PPs) in maritime English (ME) and general English(GE). Part-of-speech tagging software CLAWS5 and AntConc 3.2.0 are used for extraction of PPs and da-ta collection. Standardized frequency based on 100000 words is adopted to ensure the comparability of PPs found in different corpo-ra. This study covers analysis of overall frequency distribution and different grammatical functions of PPs. Results show that ME prefers using more PPs and these PPs are more likely to be used as predicative and postpositive attribute than does GE.Detailed comparison and contrast about the use of PPs between GE and ME are also made, thus providing helpful information for learners or teachers of maritime English.
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