Definitions of Prohibit Comparison of Definition

Hoey 2005, p. 8 calls this process nesting. Lexical priming is an individual human product since every person has unique experiences with linguistic context. Therefore, not every speaker is primed in the same way. He asserts that corpus can only point towards the priming which is likely to be shared by a large number of speakers. As a consequence, lexical priming cannot be demonstrated directly by a corpus since a corpus does not represent an individual’s linguistic experience. However, when the origins of the text samples provided by a corpus are analyzed, the corpus permits assumptions about how a person might be primed by reading the specific genre and text type. There are left and right collocations which appear before and after the word. While the nominal collocations in this study focus on the left collocation which is as the subject of the word prohibit and forbid. The data was collected from COCA and first of all the nominal collocations were investigated to discover the typical types of nouns which are modified by the near-synonyms. Table 2.3 states the top five of the nominal collocations of the two near-synonym words. Table 2.3 Top lists of nouns modified most frequently by prohibit and forbid measured by raw frequencies forbid prohibit god 779 laws 173 heaven 187 rules 124 laws 44 state 87 rules 41 states 86 amendment 15 regulations 84 As can be seen from the Table 2.3, prohibit and forbid share two nominal collocations which are laws and rules. This might indicate that their semantic traits are fairly similar. The following is the example of the usage of prohibit and forbid collected from COCA. [1] He cited laws that prohibit the possession of firearms by felons and mentally ill. [2] NCAA rules prohibit coaches form publicly discussing recruits until they sign, [3] God forbid you need a Band-Aid for something. [4] Heaven forbid we be treated like we are visitors. [5] The new rules forbid the use of genetic engineering for products labeled as organic Based on the top list of the nouns which are modified most frequent by the near-synonym, the nominal collocates could be categorized into lexical patterns. Top six nouns measured by raw frequencies were divided into two semantic or lexical groups which are religion belief and governmental-related. The categorization of the nouns is included in table 2.4. Table 2.4 Categorization of the top 8 nouns modified by the near-synonym into lexical patterns religion belief governmental-related heaven laws god rules - state - states - amendment - regulations