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Corpus perspectives on patterns of lexis /

This paper sets out to explore and evaluate several corpus search methods that are applied to uncover linguistic devices expressing 'quantity approximation' in a corpus of business English from an onomasiological perspective. The study is carried out within the framework of a project explo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hasselgård, Hilde
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 57.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This paper sets out to explore and evaluate several corpus search methods that are applied to uncover linguistic devices expressing 'quantity approximation' in a corpus of business English from an onomasiological perspective. The study is carried out within the framework of a project exploring quantity approximation in various business genres using a contrastive, corpus-driven approach (in Dutch, English and French). The paper sheds light on the advantages and disadvantages of using annotated corpora (part-of-speech and semantic tagging) and automatically extracted word lists for onomasiologic.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027271914
9027271917
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9781299662148