Adjective-noun collocations in elicited and corpus data: Similarities, differences, and the whys and wherefores

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-103

  McGee, Iain ^a  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Collocation; Corpus data; Elicited data; Frequency; Lexical intuitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649205174     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2009.004     Document Type: Article

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