Conventionalized as-similes in English: A problem case

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-37

  Moon, Rosamund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpora; Figurative language; Frequency; Idiomaticity; Lexicalization; Lexicon; Methodology; Phraseology; Simile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992458936     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.1.03moo     Document Type: Article

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