N-grams in comparable specialized corpora Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-367

  Forchini, Pierfranca ^a   Murphy, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collocation; Contrastive phraseology; Idiom principle; N grams; Prepositions; Specialized corpora

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749238256     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.3.06for     Document Type: Article

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