50-something years of work on collocations: What is or should be next ⋯

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-166

  Gries, Stefan Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

P (delta P); Association measure; Collocation; Directionality; Dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878059128     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri     Document Type: Article

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