The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Ying Wang
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
Ying Wang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ying Wang plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 “We improved presenting voice in our writing”: The role of teacher feedback in revising personal statements Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 35:2, pp. 540–564 | Article
This study investigated the role of teacher feedback in presenting students’ voice and writing quality of personal statements (PSs). PSs are essays intended to grant writers’ admission into graduate programs. Twenty third-year undergraduate students majoring in English participated in this study. read more
2019 A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 20–50 | Article
Composite predicates (CPs), that is, complex predicate structures comprising a light verb and an eventive noun (e.g., make a move or give a speech) are common in Present-day English and are particularly characteristic of spoken language. The aim of the paper is to trace language changes… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983 Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 97–116 | Chapter
This paper aims to identify and trace the development of four-word lexical bundles characterising news discourse, using a corpus of news articles published in The Times of London between 1784 and 1983. In terms of frequency, there has been an increase until the end of the nineteenth century,… read more
2017 Lexical bundles in spoken academic ELF: Genre and disciplinary variation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:2, pp. 187–211 | Article
This corpus-based study explored the effects of two factors – genre (i.e. speech event type) and disciplinary variation – on spoken academic ELF, from the perspective of lexical bundles (i.e. recurrent word combinations). The material was drawn from a corpus of transcribed spoken academic lingua… read more