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Author Wang, Ying, author

Title The idiom principle and L1 influence : a contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations / Ying Wang
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 77
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 77.
Contents Table of contents; Selected abbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Areas of inquiry: The idiom principle and L1 influence; 1.3 Research questions; 1.4 Analytical framework: The Integrated Contrastive Model; 1.5 English learning and teaching in China and Sweden; 1.6 The structure of the book; 2. Data and methodology; 2.1 Introductory remarks; 2.2 Corpora; 2.2.1 Learner corpora; 2.2.2 TL control corpus ; 2.2.3 L1 corpora; 2.3 Identifying delexical verb + noun collocations; 2.3.1 Criteria used to identify delexical verb + noun collocations
2.3.2 Syntactic patterns included2.3.3 Syntactic patterns excluded; 2.3.4 L1 verbs; 2.4 Summary; 3. Frequency of occurrence; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Token frequencies of delexical verb + noun collocations ; 3.2.1 An overall picture; 3.2.2 Frequencies of the six groups of delexical verb + noun collocations; 3.3 Type/token ratio; 3.4 Concluding remarks; 4. Noun collocates; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Searching for collocates in the BNC; 4.3 Semantic fields; 4.4 Noun collocates of have; 4.4.1 Semantic preferences of have/had in the BNC; 4.4.2 Semantic preferences of have in the five main corpora
4.5 Noun collocates of get4.5.1 Semantic preferences of get/got in the BNC; 4.5.2 Semantic preferences of get in the IL, TL and L1 corpora; 4.6 Noun collocates of give; 4.6.1 Semantic preferences of give/gave in the BNC; 4.6.2 Semantic preferences of give in the IL, TL and L1 corpora; 4.7 Noun collocates of take; 4.7.1 Semantic preferences of take/took in the BNC; 4.7.2 Semantic preferences of take in the IL, TL and L1 corpora; 4.8 Noun collocates of make; 4.8.1 Semantic preferences of make/made in the BNC; 4.8.2 Frequent noun collocates of make in the IL, TL and L1 corpora
4.9 Noun collocates of do4.9.1 Semantic preferences of doing in the BNC; 4.9.2 Frequent noun collocates of do in the IL, TL and L1 corpora; 4.10 Summary; 5. Morphosyntactic features of delexical verb + noun collocations; 5.1 Introductory remarks; 5.2 Morphology of the noun collocate; 5.2.1 An overall picture; 5.2.2 Proportions of the three categories of noun collocates associated with€the six verbs; 5.3 The determiner; 5.3.1 An overall view; 5.3.2 Types of determiner in association with the six verbs; 5.4 Postmodification; 5.4.1 An overall picture; 5.5 Concluding remarks
6. Errors and unidiomatic usage6.1 Introductory remarks; 6.2 Types of error or unidiomatic usage; 6.3 Distribution of different types of error in the learner data; 6.3.1 Overall results: Proportions of erroneous or unidiomatic usage; 6.3.2 Errors in have + noun collocations; 6.3.3 Errors in get + noun collocations; 6.3.4 Errors in make + noun collocations; 6.3.5 Errors in do + noun collocations; 6.3.6 Errors in take + noun collocations; 6.3.7 Errors in give + noun collocations; 6.4 Discussion and conclusion; 7. Summary and conclusions; 7.1 Introductory remarks; 7.2 Summary of the results
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Corpora (Linguistics)
Language acquisition.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
English language -- Discourse analysis.
English language -- Sweden -- Idioms
English language -- China -- Idioms
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Collocation (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Collocation (Linguistics)
Corpora (Linguistics)
English language -- Discourse analysis
English language -- Idioms
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Language acquisition
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
China
Sweden
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016030074
ISBN 9789027266712
9027266719