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Constructions With Press_Mouth Collocation
Constructions With Press_Mouth Collocation

Author(s): Temenuzhka Seizova-Nankova, Mehmed Muharem
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Computational linguistics, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: collocations; directionality of relations; corpus-driven approach; ‘valency’ constructions; construction grammar

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the whole population of press_mouth collocation in order to explore the hypothesis of the construction as a basic linguistic unit used spontaneously by native speakers in discourse. The findings are relevant to foreign language learners especially whose own language (in this case Bulgarian) differs so dramatically from English.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 40-52
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English