A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English

Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 275 - 311
Published: Aug 20, 2009
Abstract
The present study utilizes a corpus-driven approach to identify the most common multi-word patterns in conversation and academic writing, and to investigate the differing pattern types in the two registers. The paper first surveys the methodological characteristics of corpus-driven research and then contrasts the linguistic characteristics of two types of multi-word sequences: ‘multi-word lexical collocations’ (combinations of content words)...
Paper Details
Title
A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English
Published Date
Aug 20, 2009
Volume
14
Issue
3
Pages
275 - 311
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