Methods of digital linguistics used in complex research of means expressing action iterativity (on the material of Spanish and English langages)

摘要

The article discusses how to use the methods of corpus linguistics to recreate the expression plan of iterativity. Thanks to digital search methods such as search for examples in the linguistic corpus it is easy to find necessary examples with the appropriate verbal form. The research is based on the material of Spanish and English languages, in which verbal and non-verbal means of realizing iterativity values are being compared. As for the verbal means, the examples may contain iterativity affixes, tense forms or verbal analytical constructions. As for the non-verbal means, the iterativity can be expressed by using some frequency adverbs. Besides, the digital search in electronic dictionaries is used with the intention of finding the equivalents of lexical means in different languages. For example, the data obtained by computer search methods reveal that most Spanish adverbs with the suffix - mente have English equivalents adverbs with the suffix - ly.