Lexical analysis norms and exploitations
This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an appro...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
The MIT Press
2013
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Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, the book argues, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing |
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ISBN: | 9780262312851 0262312859 |