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Direct linkXiao, Richard; McEnery, Tony – Applied Linguistics, 2006
This paper explores the collocational behaviour and semantic prosody of near synonyms from a cross-linguistic perspective. The importance of these concepts to language learning is well recognized. Yet while collocation and semantic prosody have recently attracted much interest from researchers studying the English language, there has been little…
Descriptors: Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Chinese
