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Lexical items and feature bundling

2016
Abstract This chapter investigates a puzzle posed by traditional and contemporary approaches to the lexicon: words (lexical items) are conceived of as both complex and atomic units. Such puzzle has been the focus of much research, with consequences for the overall architecture of grammar, the debate between decompositionalists and ...
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Lexical Bundles in Swedish Secondary School Textbooks

2014
The present paper describes the process of identifying lexical bundles, i.e., frequently recurring word sequences such as by means of and in the end of, in secondary school history and physics textbooks. In its determination of finding genuine lexical bundles, i.e. the word boundaries between lexical bundles and surrounding arbitrary words, it proposes
Judy Ribeck, Lars Borin
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A lexical bundle approach to comparing languages

Languages in Contrast, 2014
Contrastive studies of phraseology have tended to focus on figurative units, such as idioms and metaphors, and paid comparatively less attention to less colourful types of units such as collocations and lexical bundles, which are equally, if not more, worthy of study.
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Fine-tuning lexical bundles

2018
Abstract This chapter has two major aims. First, it attempts to extend earlier research on recurrent phraseologies used in the pharmaceutical field (Grabowski 2015) by exploring the use, distribution and functions of lexical bundles found in English texts describing drug-drug interactions.
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Lexical bundles in spoken academic ELF

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2017
AbstractThis corpus-based study explored the effects of two factors – genre (i.e. speech event type) and disciplinary variation – on spoken academic ELF, from the perspective of lexical bundles (i.e. recurrent word combinations). The material was drawn from a corpus of transcribed spoken academic lingua franca English (ELFA). The investigation involved
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Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex

2013
This chapter provides an overview of studies on multiword units of meaning that have made an impact on the creation of SciE-Lex (see Verdaguer et al. this volume). We discuss a variety of statistical, phraseological and rhetorical approaches to collocation, as well as the notion of lexical bundle (Biber et al. 1999).
Natalia Judith Laso, Danica Salazar
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Identifying Lexical Bundles for an Academic Writing Assistant in Spanish

2019
This paper presents the process of identifying recurrent multi-word expressions (i.e. lexical bundles) relevant for a writing-aid of academic texts in Spanish. It also proposes a repertory of discourse functions that enables the classification of the candidate word-strings as well as their onomasiological retrieval.
Marcos García Salido, Marcos Garcia, Margarita Alonso-Ramos   +2 more
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Lexical Bundles in Eap

2022
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At the same time : Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 university student argumentative writing

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2017
Tetyana Bychkovska, Joseph J Lee
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Lexical bundles in medical research articles

2016
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