Based on the British National Corpus(BNC),this paper makes an analysis of the word absolutely and thoroughly from their collocation.Therefore,the results can be listed as following.Firstly,the obvious adjective colloc...
The aim of this paper was to investigate the most frequent verb collocations which occur in medical texts and to check the competence of the first-year students of medical English in using them. Merck's Manual of Med...
Children's early specific vocabulary acquisition has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention in child language development. Despite prior discussions on this topic among monolinguals, few studies have l...
This paper will explore the V-R (verb-result) constructions from the constructional approach. In the book Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (1995), Goldberg recognized the impor...
Briefly looking back to the history of phrasal verbs, the researchers distinguish them in accordance with the main linguistics approaches which include traditional approaches emerged before 1980s and cognitive linguis...
Known as repetition or revision with a signal difference, signifying epitomizes for Twain the most impressive rhetorical stance in the variety of satire, particularly its indirect and double-voiced quality. In Adventu...
This is a corpus-based research focusing on the high-frequency verb "keep" used by Chinese non-English majors and native speakers. The corpora involved in the paper are Brown which stands for native speakers, Studen...