Semantic prosody of "end in"

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Here is the signature of a user of corpus4u:

"Corpus is fun as one day everybody will end in it."

It seems strange to say that people will end in what is fun.
Significant (noun) collocates of "END in" in the BNC include:

disaster
divorce
failure
draw
tragedy
deadlock
farce
stalement
defeat
tears
March
chaos
April
death
January
June
September
july
victory
November
December
agreement
may
success
year
way

"END in" tends to collocates with month names and negative items, but in a few cases, it does collocate with positive items such as success and victory. Here are concordances of "will end in" -

while in hospitals around 12pc of all pregnancies//will end in//an operation."Hospitals have all this hi-tech
Oxford Prison's role as a LOCAL prison//will end in//April.Inmates here will be transfered to the
of education", otherwise, everything " will end in//chaos and despotism".One of the most
is matched only by the inevitability that life//will end in//death.It can be awesome, and frightening
high that a big random jump in genetic space//will end in//death.Even a small random jump in genetic
Major is so worried this weekend's EC summit//will end in//disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand
involving a partner who has been married before//will end in//divorce, according to Relate, the marriage guidance organisation
She is certain, however, that the separation//will end in//divorce."There will be no reconciliaton,
According to him the universe sprang from fire and//will end in//fire.This idea was probably transmitted from Iran
: Fire and Ice Some say the world//will end in//fire, Some say in ice.From what I
It is quite possible that the Higgs quest//will end in//Geneva, not Texas.Estimates of the Higgs's
Although his suspension//will end in//July 1996, before the start of the Atlanta Olympics
a way that there can be no failure which//will end in//loss of control authority, but one must of course invest
from fishing since August, although the ban//will end in//mid-September, because of a sharp drop in sardine numbers
in their versions of DOS.But this//will end in//September this year, giving IBM far more freedom to
.A high proportion of trials which begin//will end in//settlement rather than judgment.By the end, we
, on the first leg of a journey which//will end in//Shanghai.
, on the first leg of a journey which//will end in//Shanghai.
of despair are the "woods", despair//will end in//some vision of cosmic order which can only be hinted
our world things come to nothing, but this//will end in//something, it's bound to, it's bound to!
The campaign//will end in//style.Today JR will turn up at the
sense which said, "Stay away, it//will end in//tears."When it came to my libido,
We know it//will end in//tears, but Peter O'Toole and Tara Fitzgerald simply
THE Maastricht Treaty//will end in//tears, Lord Tebbit warned early today towards the end
He forecast: "This Treaty//will end in//tears it is better that it ends in tears now
of all styles of cooking) wherever they go//will end in//the annihilation of the typical specialities of the provinces
scenes heighten the tension and suggest that all//will end in//tragedy.
In three years juvenile remands to prison//will end in//favour of community alternatives.
 
Aha! It is really funner to see that semantic prosody evidences should have failed to endorse this signiture of xusun575's.:D
 
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The semantic prosody is similar to that of verb "to cause" and noun "consequence" in English and 后果 in Chinese (Cf: Tao, 2003).
 
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回复: Semantic prosody of "end in"

The semantic prosody is similar to that of verb "to cause" and noun "consequence" in English and 后果 in Chinese (Cf: Tao, 2003).

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Yeah, Xu is right. I also search Collins Cobuild Dictionary CD2006. Among the
95 item of "end in", there are almost 40 of them which are collocated with negative words. The rest of them are collocated with months, "draw" and something like that. Only one example is collocated with a positive word. "He said: `Getting the Welsh job was the pinnacle of my career, it was the start of a wonderful dream which so nearly ended in glory."
 
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He said: "Getting the Welsh job was the pinnacle of my career, it was the start of a wonderful dream which so nearly ended in glory."

Apparently, this is an instance of evaluatively positive co-occurrence, but a closer reading shows that this may not be the case. While 'glory' standing alone is surely something desirable, in this context, it it not - because of its neighbours "dream" and "so nearly" (but still failed). Glory here is in fact a hope dashed into pieces.

That is my reading of the example. Do you agree?
 
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Yeah. Maybe you are right that the speaker just wants to show a negative tone in using the phrase. But sometimes, it's not so obvious to find out the implication without checking the whole context.
 
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