The figurative nature of collocations: extent, knowledge and acquisition of duplex collocations by non-native speakers

As shown by research conducted in the fields of corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), formulaic sequences (e.g. collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs, lexical bundles etc.) form a crucial part of second language learners’ language competence. One of the main char...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macis, Marijana
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38090/