Multi-dimensional register classification using bigrams

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-478

  Crossley, Scott A ^a   Louwerse, Max ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bigrams; Collocations; Multi dimensional analysis; Register variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249099778     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.12.4.02cro     Document Type: Article

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