Exploring english phraseology with two tools: NSM semantic methodology and Google

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-129

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

British empiricism; Collocational constructions; Corpus; Cultural keywords; Cultural semantics; NSM methodology; Webevidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549143006     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424209334338     Document Type: Article

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