Use of signalling nouns in a learner corpus

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-362

  Flowerdew, John ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cohesion; Error analysis; Learner corpus; Learner error; Lexical cohesion; Signalling noun

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248698210     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.3.07flo     Document Type: Conference Paper

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