Hunston, p. 96-109
Hunston
Variation (by register)
nouns in ads
adjectives in tabloid newspapers
verbs in medical
adverbs in sermons
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Idioms (corpus size matters)
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Neologisms
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Comparing related words
V: smash / hit [nn*]
ADJ: big / large [nn*]
N: [vvi] the house / home
collocates: N, V, ADJ ??
Multiple meanings of words
e.g. crack, ring, kill, mark, treat, tie, cast, strike
Thesaurus
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Collocation and phraseology
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Thorndike (1944; 30,000w), West (1953; 2000w; by meaning)
Paul Nation's word families
LDS Basic English
[v*] him/her into [vvg]
[v*] him [v*]
this [v*] in with
"oh, just give it a NN1", "take a NN1 at it"