Frequency of 'core idioms' in the British National Corpus (BNC)

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-451

  Grant, Lynn E ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Challenges in the corpus search; Core idioms; Corpus; Frozen core idioms; Idioms; Non compositional; Non figurative; Variations of core idioms

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248715655     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.4.03gra     Document Type: Article

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