ryone is fighting a fierce rearguard action struggling towards the objective of a discrete syntactic classes, all the while being forced by practical necessity to move closer and closer toward an analysis of relationships whenever they want to get anything done. Everyone is still trying to find relationships of classes rather than classes of relationships. In n-gram models relationships are use...

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...

This study is set in a broad context of development of courses and computational tools to aid Brazilian graduate students in writing scientific papers in English. The main focus is on experimental research papers from the disciplines of physics, pharmaceutical and computer sciences. One of our primary objectives is to give students feedback and raise their awareness of the most typical lexical ...

This study examines how different dimensions of corpus frequency data may affect the outcome of statistical modeling of lexical items. Our analysis mainly focuses on a recently constructed elderly speaker corpus that is used to reveal patterns of aging people’s language use. A conversational corpus contributed by speakers in their 20s serves as complementary material. The target words examined ...

This study aimed at finding features of collocational deviations in the translations of Tuesdays with Mor- rie. In this direction, categories of collocations and collocational clashes, as well as causes of collocation- al clashes were explored. The present work investigated five Persian translations of the novel. All the books were examined completely and all possible collocational clashes were...

Collocation is an aspect of language generally considered arbitrary by nature and problematic to L2 learners who need collocational competence for effective communication. This study attempts, from the perspective of L2 learners, to have a deeper understanding of collocational use and some of the problems involved, by adopting a task based approach, using two highly comparable corpora based on ...

Abstract The congruency effect—that is, faster and more accurate processing of congruent multiword units, has been demonstrated in multiple studies. It is still unclear, however, what its underlying mechanism how may interact with other factors. Using an acceptability judgement task, this study examined the effect immersive (Experiment 1) nonimmersive 2) L2 learners’ collocational while taking ...