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Ignacio Bosque: «Combinatoria y significación. Algunas reflexiones», en I. Bosque (dir.), REDES. Diccionario combinatorio del español contemporáneo. Madrid, SM, 2004, pp. lxxvii-clxxi
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ABSTRACT: In the New Testament Vulgate, the Greek verb μισέω (“to hate”) is translated either as the Latin verb odi, or as the constructions with support verb odio habeo and odio sum. In order to understand the criteria that explain these... more
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureLatin LiteratureTranslation Studies
The paper defines and shows how to use the Minimal Ratio – an exact metric that expresses the ratio between the measured value and the limits of the confidence interval calculated according to the formula Fischer’s exact test is based on.... more
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      StatisticsLanguages and LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingData Mining
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      LexicologyGerman LanguageLexicographyCollocations
Parts of this research were presented at the ICCG-3 and the CSDL-7; the authors would like to thank the participants for discussion.
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      English languageCorpus LinguisticsCluster AnalysisCollocations
The article deals with the analysis of classification of verbal-prepositional structures of the type: verb + preposition TO in the English language. The author compares the approach of Beth Levin with her own classification of... more
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      English languageCorpus LinguisticsCollocations
Corpus-based examinations of the extent of modal marking (modal load) in if-conditionals in the written BNC have revealed that they have a significantly higher modal load (ML) than average, 1 as well as a higher ML than indirect... more
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      Corpus LinguisticsConstruction GrammarLinguistic TheoryCollocation
The main goal of this doctoral dissertation is to describe the collocational radius of five predicate nouns that belong to the semantic field of feelings: odium «hatred», invidia «envy, unpopularity», laetitia «joy», gaudium «delight» and... more
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      ClassicsLatin LiteratureHistory of Latin LanguageLatin Language and Literature
COLLOCATIONS CỰC CHẤT CHO CHỦ ĐỀ GOVERNMENT_NGOC BACH.pdf
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      GovernmentCollocations
In this article, the authors analize how García Lorca manipulates language syntactically, semantically and lexically to create metaphors in his poetry. Concentrating on two of his main works, Gypsy Ballads and Poet in New York, they... more
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      Federico García LorcaCollocations
This dissertation arose from discussions with my advisor and committee chair, Professor Anatoly Liberman. His tireless dedication to the full spectrum of Germanic philology was the deciding factor in my application to the University of... more
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      StylisticsPoeticsCorpus LinguisticsLyric poetry
Los diccionarios combinatorios del español Redes y Práctico constituyen una inestimable ayuda para profesores de ELE. En este trabajo se comparan ambas obras y se muestra cómo el primer diccionario, más conceptual, es una valiosa ayuda... more
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      LexicologyLexicographyCollocations
Based on the assumption that language and culture are inextricably linked, the paper looks at some characteristics of the domain that can be labelled 'house and home' in the British Isles and North America, and contrasts it in particular... more
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      American CultureLanguage and CultureCollocationsBritish Culture
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      Construction GrammarCollocationCollocationsContrastive Linguistics
COLLOCATIONS CỰC CHẤT CHO CHỦ ĐỀ ENVIRONMENT_NGOC BACH.pdf
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      VocabularyEnergy and EnvironmentCollocationsThe Environment
This study investigated Vietnamese EFL learners' knowledge of verb–noun and adjective–noun collocations at the first three 1,000 word frequency levels, and the extent to which five factors (node word frequency, collocation frequency,... more
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      Vocabulary AcquisitionVocabulary LearningCollocationsTeaching Collocations
In den deutschsprachigen Lernerwörterbüchern werden Kollokationen kodifiziert, gelegentlich auch noch in einer markierten Wörterbuchartikelposition. Das weist auf ihre Relevanz für die Benutzer, d.h. die Lerner des Deutschen als... more
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      LexicologyLexicographyDeutsch als FremdspracheKorpuslinguistik
Nello studio delle lingue straniere, a chi non è mai capitato di porsi quesiti come «si può dire do a mistake in inglese?», «è giusto dire feu jaune (semaforo giallo) in francese?», «si dice empezar con (iniziare con) in spagnolo?» ?... more
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      CollocationCollocationsCollocation and idiomatic expressionsTeaching Collocations
Lexical collocation has become an increasingly important linguistic phenomenon in the fields of language learning as well as translation studies. The present book draws attention to this " phenomenon " in the field of Arabic studies in an... more
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      Translation StudiesQuranic StudiesCollocationsArabic-English translation
This paper reports on the discursive construction of immigrants in newspaper articles published during 2007 and 2008 in a prominent daily newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand's most migrant populated city. The study adopts a corpus-assisted... more
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      Media StudiesImmigrationMetaphorCollocation
Collocation refers to how words are frequently combined together in order to create natural and correct combinations of words. In international tests such as IELTS and TOEFL, collocations are always evaluated. therefore using correct... more
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Usage-based models claim that first language learning is based on the frequency-based analysis of memorised phrases. It is not clear though, whether adult second language learning works in the same way. It has been claimed that non-native... more
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      VocabularyFormulaic LanguageCollocations
Dieses kleine Handbuch soll Lehrpersonen im Bereich DaF als Erste-Schritte-Anleitung zum Arbeiten mit Korpora im Unterricht dienen und aufzeigen, welche Vorteile das Arbeiten mit Korpora für den Wortschatzerwerb mit sich bringt. Gezeigt... more
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      DidacticsCorpus LinguisticsLexicographyGoogle
Kollokationen sowie weitere typische Fügungen der Wissenschaftssprache (etw. steht im Gegensatz zu etw.; es stellt sich die Frage nach etw.) gelten in der schriftlichen Produktion als eine enorme Fehlerquelle. Dies trifft insbesondere auf... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsGermanic linguisticsApplied LinguisticsLinguistics
Presentation given at the Post-graduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield. It outlines my PhD research on language ideologies potentially affecting English teachers' cognition, especially with regard to Knowledge... more
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      Language and IdeologyCorpus LinguisticsCorpus Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisTeacher Cognition
Ce mémoire traite de l’analyse des termes culinaires chez Balzac à partir d’un corpus de trois livres de Balzac qui montrent des milieux sociaux différents dans la France au XIXe siècle. Cette analyse est faite grâce à un outil... more
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      French LiteratureLanguages and Linguistics19th Century French LiteratureHonoré de Balzac
The third copy (Türkmen Sahra) of The Stories of Dede Korkut, which has a very important place in Turkish language and literature, was discovered and brought to the scientific community in recent years, after its first (Dresden) and... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreTurkish LanguageCollocationsTurkish Language and Literature
In general, existing studies on collocations include only those that belong to a standard level of language, omitting those that are a part of a more informal register. Several authors have pointed out the dimension of register in... more
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The article presents an investigation of semantic and information structures; the former mainly characterises style (of a writer, a cyclus or a single piece of work), and the latter refers to the content of the work and/or cyclus. Based... more
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      Computational LinguisticsCorpus Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisKeywordsCorpus Stylistics
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      CollocationsKollokationenKollokationen In Zweisprachigen Wörterbüchern
Le thème des collocations est aujourd’hui amplement étudié, aussi bien dans ses divers cadres théoriques, visant une meilleure connaissance et systématisation des structures linguistiques de la langue générale, que dans ses multiples... more
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      TerminologyCollocationCollocationsTeaching Collocations
The paper focuses on finding fixed collocations in Marína, the legendary love poem written by Slovak poet Andrej Sládkovič (1820 − 1872). these may uncover the semantic structure of the text and help solve several of its attractive... more
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      RomanticismCollocationsSlovak LiteratureStylometry
Überlegungen zu Funktionsverbgefügen aus sprachvergleichender Sicht Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, anhand einiger Fälle ‚interlingualer' Funktionsverbgefüge (FVG) im Deutschen, Englischen, Spanischen, Französischen und Italienischen zu... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsGerman LanguageEnglishConstruction Grammar
The lexical approach identifies lexis as the basis of language and focuses on principle that language consists of grammaticalised lexis. in second language acquisition, over the past few years, this approach has generated great interest... more
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      Teaching English as a Second LanguageFormulaic LanguageVerbal FluencyCollocations
Collocations, no matter where to use them, are an important linguistic issue if it is native fluency that is longed for in academic writing. In line with that, the present study aimed at increasing the awareness towards the importance of... more
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Questo articolo è una rielaborazione di alcune parti della mia tesi dottorale (Masini 2007), diretta da Raffaele Simone. Mi è sembrato doveroso contribuire al volume in suo onore con uno scritto che riguardasse i temi che a suo tempo ci... more
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      ItalianCollocationsPhrasal lexemesMultiword Expressions
Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using... more
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      HistoryCultural HistoryDigital HumanitiesSocial Networks
Combinations of verb + preposition, where the verb requires the presence of the preposition, such as “consistir en”, “carecer de”, have traditionally been identified as grammatical collocations in Spanish. In this paper, I suggest the... more
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Collocations are an important part of lexis. Their use is often indispensable and they cannot be replaced by any other lexical means. Unfortunately, they pose a big problem for learners of a foreign language because they are not... more
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      CollocationsKollokationenKollokationen Im DeutschenWortschatzarbeit
This is a corpus linguistics textbook under review at Language Science Press. If you have comments, suggestions or criticism, feel free to contact me under clmbook@stefanowitsch.net.
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      Corpus LinguisticsMorphologyMetaphorLinguistics
Today’s frequent intercultural contacts and migration bridge earlier cultural gaps and carry recipes further than ever before. Cookery books are governed by their own laws not only in the choice of vocabulary and fixed expressions, but... more
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      English for Specific PurposesAnthropology of FoodCorpus Consultation (Applied Linguistics)Corpus Linguistics
To be a proficient language user, one must learn not only about the meaning of words, “but also about the way words combine with other words.” (Sicherl, 2005). Collocations, along with the lack of a systematic order of acquisition of... more
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      Teaching English as a Second LanguageEnglish languageNon-Native English Speaking Professionals in TESOLTeaching English As A Foreign Language
Semantics is rather difficult to define. Linguists and philosophers alike have for decades been trying to define its intricacies, characteristics and properties. Within the realm of language, semantics is a street called meaning, which... more
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      English LiteratureEnglish for Specific PurposesEnglish for Academic PurposesTeaching English as a Second Language
This study presents a list of the highest frequency collocations of spoken English based on carefully applied criteria. In the literature, more than forty terms have been used for designating multi-word units, which are generally not well... more
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Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Vol.6. No.4 December 2015 Pp.... more
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      HemingwayArabic translationEquivalenceCollocations
Collocation is the alliance of words in a language to perform speech and writing normally and naturally. The meaning of collocation can hardly be obtained from their component word knowledge. The purpose of this study is to answer the... more
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      Translation StudiesKurdish StudiesKurdish LanguageCollocations
The third volume of the “Intercontinental Dialogue on Phraseology” series is a continuation of the project, which was inspired by the symposium "Phraseology 2009" organised by Professor Katsumasa Yagi at Kwansei Gakuin University in... more
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      Discourse AnalysisLanguagesCultural StudiesEthnolinguistics