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IJLLL 2025 Vol.11(2): 90-94
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2025.11.2.579

A Contrastive Phraseological Study of Chinese and English “Appearance” Verb Patterns

Maocheng Liang* and Siwen Guo
Beihang University, Beijing, China
Email: frankliang0086@163.com (M.C.L.); ninagreen818@163.com (S.W.G.)
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received October 4, 2024; accepted December 25, 2024; published April 25, 2025.

Abstract—The cross-linguistic study of appearance verbs provides valuable insights into language patterns and translation practice. By using the model of the extended unit of meaning, the research aims to explore typical usage patterns of English and Chinese appearance verbs. Embedding models were used to identify potential translation equivalents of “出现” (chu1 xian4) from a parallel corpus, and to assist the analysis of semantic preference and attitudinal polarity. Results show that “出现” is translated into “appear” with the highest percentage of 48.11% among all counterparts identified. Taking this typical pair of translation equivalents as an example, we then used two monolingual corpora to describe their extended units of meaning, respectively. The findings reveal that “出现” and “appear” exhibit similar colligation patterns, however, they diverge in terms of semantic preferences and evaluative connotations. This research contributes to enhancing the understanding of Chinese and English appearance verbs, offering valuable insights into contrastive phraseology and the application of pre-trained language models in linguistics.

Keywords—appear, appearance verbs, contrastive phraseology, pre-trained language models

Cite: Maocheng Liang* and Siwen Guo, "A Contrastive Phraseological Study of Chinese and English “Appearance” Verb Patterns," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 90-94, 2025.

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