A Corpus-based Study of Spanish Synonymous Verbs

Chao We · Journal of Yangzhou College of Education · 2015

Verbs are the most important part of Spanish vocabulary. Distinguishing synonyms is one of the most difficult points in Spanish verbs learning. In traditional Spanish teaching,the discrimination of synonyms mostly relies on the dictionary definitions and analysis of sample sentences,which is not easily accepted and digested well by students. Based on Sketch Engine and Spanish corpus Es Ten Ten11,this paper analyses necesitar,the synonym of querer,and the collocation differences between them,thus providing new ideas for the teaching of synonyms distinguishing.

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