Overlapping bundles, that is, shorter lexical bundles that are totally or partially embedded in longer expressions, may prove problematic in the structural and functional classification of bundles. For example, many studies in the literature focus only on four-word lexical bundles and conduct… read more
While corpus studies on academic writing have improved instructional materials for writing in the hard sciences, humanities and social sciences world language writing pedagogy remains open to development. In the interest of data-driven Spanish for academic purposes curricula, using English and… read more
If Douglas Biber and his collaborators in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Biber et al. 1999) had not devoted a great deal of work to replicate the corpus-driven methodology used by Bent Altenberg (1993) in the identification and analysis of recurrent word combinations, chances… read more