You shall know a term by the company it keeps: collocations of the term evidence in general and legal corpora

Despite the progress made in study of collocations, their use specialised languages by and large continues to be underresearched. The present article attempts go some way towards filling this gap looking at variation collocations a single term (evidence) as extracted from general corpus legal one, exploring implications such for retrieval collocations. In particular, looks a) overrepresentation corpus, b) underrepresentation c) potential both corpora collocation retrieval. findings suggest that there are striking differences between each can radically affect lists obtained corpus.