Collocations in a learner corpus

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building mat...

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Main Author: Nesselhauf, Nadja (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Thesis
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004
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Author Notes:Nadja Nesselhauf
Table of Contents:
  • Collocations in a Learner Corpus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Collocations in native and non-native speaker language; 2. Investigating collocations in a learner corpus; 3. The use of collocations by advanced learners; 4. Building material of non-native-like collocations; 5. Factors correlating with learners' difficulties with collocations; 6. Implications of the findings; Notes; References; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics;