"Utterly content in each other's company": Semantic prosody and semantic preference

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 131-156

  Partington, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Evaluation; Intensification; Phraseology; Semantic preference; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646900650     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.9.1.07par     Document Type: Article

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