Quantitative Analysis of Copular Verbs in Technical English
Peng Chun-yan · Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology · 2003
The thesis is intended to investigate the use and distribution of copular verbs in Technical English.Copular verbs are dealt with in terms of their definition and classification.The focus of the thesis is on the quantitative and textual analyses of copular verbs in T4in comparison with the other3corpora.For this purpose,we use SPSS and SNOBLE4.Conclusions have been reached on the basis of the above statistical results and textual analyses.