A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in english: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-311

  Biber, Douglas ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation versus academic writing; Corpus driven research; Lexical bundles; Lexical patterns; Multi word formulaic sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349799309     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.3.08bib     Document Type: Article

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