Syntactic Preference and Meaning of Collocation

Abstract
Both corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics hold the view that lexis and grammar are inseparable.Usage patterns of a collocation are related to its meaning.Sinclair and other researchers discussed semantic preference and semantic prosody of collocation through a deep analysis of short distance contexts of collocations.This paper,based on corpus evidence,looks into syntactic patterns of collocations.The investigation shows the use of...
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Title
Syntactic Preference and Meaning of Collocation
Published Date
Jan 1, 2012
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