Dispersions and adjusted frequencies in corpora

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-437

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collocations; Collostructions; Constructions patterns; Dispersion; Frequency of co occurrence; Frequency of occurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849206925     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.4.02gri     Document Type: Article

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