What can a corpus tell us about lexis?

Oakey, D ORCID: 0000-0001-7936-8315 (2022) What can a corpus tell us about lexis? In: Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics Second Edition. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, pp. 185-203. ISBN 9780367076382, 0367076381

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Summary

This chapter contains an overview of the wide range of areas where corpus linguistics can offer the researcher insights into lexis. It highlights areas where corpus methods have maintained continuity with the pre-corpus era, such as accelerating the production of word frequency counts and concordances, the quantification of collocational relationships between words and the development of new word meanings. It also discusses how corpus linguistics has expanded the notion of lexis from the pre-corpus era and led to new concepts such as semantic prosody and pattern grammar. The majority of corpus resources referred to in the chapter are accessible online to researchers, and all of the observations about lexis can be replicated by the reader.

Item Type:	Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4704 Linguistics
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2022 10:29
Last Modified:	22 May 2026 16:17
DOI:	10.4324/9780367076399-14
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3164945
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