Lexical gravity across varieties of English: An ICE-based study of n-grams in Asian Englishes

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 520-548

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a   Mukherjee, Joybrato ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asian Englishes; Lexical gravity; Lexical stickiness; Modes; n gram

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149439680     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.15.4.04gri     Document Type: Review

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