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Direct linkLiu, Dilin – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Using the academic writing sub-corpora of the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and building on previous research, this study strives to identify the most frequently-used multi-word constructions (MWCs) of various types (e.g., idioms, lexical bundles, and phrasal/prepositional verbs) in general…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, North American English, Computational Linguistics
