Testing the sub-test: An analysis of English -ic and -ical adjectives

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-61

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ic ical adjectives; Collocations; Derivational morphology; Fisher exact test; t test

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344497479     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.8.1.02gri     Document Type: Article

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