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Major: Russian Language
Minor: Natural Language Processing
Graduation year: 2010
I analyze the use of the “come”, especially the adverb-collocations of “come”. Making a comparison between JEFLL corpus and BNC, there were significant differences that the Japanese English learners less use phrasal verb, a combination of a verb and adverb, than native speakers.
I counted how often the English learners use “come” and what adverbs they use with “come”.
Table 1 Frequencies of come in JEFLL corpus and BNC
| JEFLL | BNC | |
| come | 632 | 66670 |
| comes | 82 | 15686 |
| came | 912 | 44822 |
| coming | 79 | 17724 |
| comed | 5 | 0 |
| comeing | 4 | 0 |
| 合計 | 1714 | 144902 |
Table 2 Frequencies of “come + adverb” pattern in JEFLL corpus
| JEFLL | BNC | ||
| 1 | back | 171 | 7938 |
| 2 | home | 81 | 2005 |
| 3 | here | 61 | 2246 |
| 4 | there | 21 | 55 |
| 5 | in | 16 | 6853 |
| 6 | on | 12 | 5261 |
| 7 | soon | 12 | 74 |
| 8 | out | 8 | 6091 |
| 9 | up | 7 | 5561 |
| 10 | again | 6 | 309 |
| 合計 | 395 |
Table 3 Frequencies of “come + adverb” pattern in BNC
| BNC | JEFLL | ||
| 1 | back | 7938 | 171 |
| 2 | in | 6538 | 16 |
| 3 | up | 5561 | 7 |
| 4 | on | 5261 | 12 |
| 5 | out | 5019 | 8 |
| 6 | down | 3295 | 2 |
| 7 | here | 2246 | 61 |
| 8 | home | 2005 | 81 |
| 9 | round | 1196 | 0 |
| 10 | over | 1088 | 0 |
| 合計 | 40147 |
The Japanese English learners tend to use less phrasal verbs than native speakers. Table 1 and 2 shows JEFFL corpus contains 1714 sentences which include “come”, “comes”, “came” and “coming”, 23% is the sentences accompany with adverbs. While Table 1 and 3 shows BNC contains 144902 sentences which include “come” and the inflectors, 27.7% is the sentences accompany with adverbs. The rate of using adverbs of both corpus is seemingly similar, but it might be said that JEFLL corpus has unbalanced aspects. As for "come + back" pattern, the terms are intensively used that 127 sentences on the topic “Urashmiataro”.
