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The idiom principle and L1 influence : a contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations / Ying Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Ying, author.
- Series:
- Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 77.
- Studies in corpus linguistics (SCL) , 1388-0373 ; volume 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corpora (Linguistics).
- Language acquisition.
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- English language.
- English language--Sweden--Idioms.
- English language--China--Idioms.
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- Collocation (Linguistics).
- English language--Idioms.
- Idioms.
- China.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 249 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
- Summary:
- This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field to incorporate corpora of the learner's L1 to investigate the effects of L1 influence. The book provides a highly detailed and multi-faceted analysis of delexical verb + noun collocations in terms of frequency of occurrence, lexical preferences and morphosyntactic patterns. Quantitative and qualitative results on overuse, underuse and errors are presented with linguistically and pedagogically relevant interpretations that include cultural and discourse aspects. More importantly, the book throws light on how L2 learners may alternate between the 'open-choice principle' and the 'idiom principle' as well as the extent and nature of L1 influence on their collocational use.
- Contents:
- 1 Selected abbreviations p. ix
- 2 Acknowledgements p. xi
- 3 Chapter 1. Introduction p. 1
- 4 Chapter 2. Data and methodology p. 15
- 5 Chapter 3. Frequency of occurrence p. 33
- 6 Chapter 4. Noun collocates p. 55
- 7 Chapter 5. Morphosyntactic features of delexical verb + noun collocations p. 127
- 8 Chapter 6. Errors and unidiomatic usage p. 165
- 9 Chapter 7. Summary and conclusions p. 201
- 10 References p. 209
- 11 Appendix p. 223
- 12 Index p. 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wang, Ying, author. Idiom principle and L1 influence
- ISBN:
- 9789027210746
- 9027210748
- OCLC:
- 949870458
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