Corpus linguistics has been in the spotlight for the last decade, with the usage of modern computers and technologies deeper understanding of languages can be obtained. Corpus linguistics helps language teaching for acquiring a better view for language. Language teachers will know what sequence of words and patters tend to co-occur. Unlike previous enormous lists of words which students were fo...

Monolingual corpora were first thought of as an excellent basis for lexicographical research but, as time went on, research projects extended to various kinds of analysis, from the lexicon, to syntactic patterns to various aspects of text structure. Nowadays the study of the general lexicon covers the analysis of single and multi-word units in context, collocations, lexical groups, lexical 'bun...

1 Morphology with or without Affixes The last few years have seen the emergence of several clearly articulated alternative approaches to morphology. One such approach rests on the notion that only stems of the so-called lexical categories (N, V, A) are morpheme "pieces" in the traditional sense—connections between (bundles of) meaning (features) and (bundles of) sound (features). What look like...

Prefabricated composite free flaps for complex airway reconstruction have been described for an adult series at our institution. We extended this approach to a pediatric patient with lifelong subglottic stenosis who had failed previous open airway reconstructions. A staged procedure was utilized in which a composite graft was created using conchal cartilages and a radial forearm free flap. This...

Lexical bundles, as building blocks of discourse, play vital roles in helping members from the same academic community achieve successful communication and disseminate sustainable disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to lexical bundles postgraduate writing. Drawing on Biber et al.’s (1999) structural taxonomy Hyland’s (2008a) functional taxonomy, we identified compare...