dimension seep : drip Emphasis enemy : foe Denotational, indirect error : mistake Denotational, fuzzy woods : forest Stylistic, formality pissed : drunk : inebriated Stylistic, force ruin : annihilate Expressed attitude skinny : thin : slim, slender Emotive daddy : dad : father Collocational task : job Selectional pass away : die Subcategorization give : donate 2.3 Dimensions of variation The p...

Abstract Given the importance of collocational knowledge for second language learning, how collocation learning can be facilitated is an important question. The present study examined effects three different practice schedules on learning: node massed, and spaced. In node-massed schedule, collocations same verb were studied day. collocation-massed in weeks. collocation-spaced participants encou...

theories of semantic fields are the most valuable topics of semantics in linguistic researches. this concept refers to the set of words which are the subset of a general meaning connected through special relations. in fact, semantics is the summary of words’ relations with each other. therefore, this study aims to investigate semantic fields in nahj al-fasaha, to explain relations among words i...

Abstract This study examined the development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations, and roles L1 collocational knowledge practice conditions process. Korean learners English were assigned to one two (practice identical or varied contexts). The learning gains for word combinations with without equivalent counterparts (L1-only L2-only collocations) assessed using response times (RTs) coef...

After Hong Kong’s return to Chinese Sovereignty in 1997, the terms ‘mainlander’ and ‘Hongkonger’ have been widely used by English-language media Kong differentiate between people from mainland Kong. This study examines representations of mainlanders Hongkongers a 17.4-million-token corpus containing 30,279 articles published 1998 2019 South China Morning Post, leading newspaper By comparing col...

Abstract Bilingual speakers of typologically closely related languages tend to frequently experience language transfer, which suggests that similarity between is likely play an important role in the transfer process. In this paper, we explore how three different types affect light verb constructions ( lvc s), such as take a walk or set alarm , from Dutch German by native living Netherlands, nam...

abul’at?hieh, a distinguished poet and the innovator of the technique of ascetic poetry in abbasid era, was obviously and markedly under the influence of the holy qur’an and made an extensive use of quranic rhetorical devices and figures of speech in his poems. the influence of the qur’an on abul’at?hieh is in all lexical, collocational, musical, rhetorical and thematic areas. however, those fi...

A number of authors (Lewis 1993, 1997, 2000, Woolard 2001, Thornbury 2002) writing for English language teachers have argued that collocations are arbitrary and therefore there is no point in attempting to explain them to foreign language learners in the classroom. It is my impression that these writers have been very influential with the result that this view of collocation is firmly entrenche...