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THE TREATMENT OF VERBAL COLLOCATIONS (VERB + NOUN) IN THE DICIONÁRIO OXFORD ESCOLAR PARA ESTUDANTES BRASILEIROS DE INGLÊS (2009)

Travessias, 2014
The term collocation designates cases of lexical-syntactic co-occurrence, i.e., words that usually go together. Collocations make speech and writing sound much more natural, but usually cause difficulties for learners of a foreign language, especially in
Márcia dos Santos Dornelles
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 357-385, July 2026.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 487-512, July 2026.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Exploring translator's style in children's literature: A case study of Nicky Harman's English translations of Huang Beijia's two works. [PDF]

PLoS One
He H, Wang H.
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Editorial: Second or foreign language learning and cognitive development. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Shu D, Xu J, Zhang H, Tian Z.
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Navigating the landscape of academic prose: A corpus-driven inquiry into rhetorical preferences and their pedagogical implications for advanced L2 writers. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yu Y, Xu Y, Wu Y.
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Is there a processing advantage for verb-noun collocations in Chinese reading? Evidence from eye movements during reading. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Li H, Wang X, Paterson KB, Zhang H, Li D.   +4 more
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Discovering mythorealism: A corpus stylistic analysis of Yan Lianke's novels in English. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang Y, Zhao C.
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A corpus-based analysis on the use of MAKE in sinologist Cyril Birch's English version of Mistress and Maid (Jiaohongji). [PDF]

PLoS One
Yu C, Wu Y.
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Lexical intuitions and collocation patterns in corpora [PDF]

Language teachers are often called upon by their students to provide examples of vocabulary usage in the classroom. Drawing on their experience of language, these teachers model lexical combinations and collocations, not only in their classes, but also in materials writing. However, corpus linguists have claimed that native speaker intuitions about the
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