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Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
[Studies in Language Companion Series 191] 2017
► pp. 1–34

Chapter 1
Lexis in contrast today

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 | University of Oslo
Article outline
  • 1.Corpus-based contrastive linguistics
  • 2.Types of corpora and the tertium comparationis
  • 3.The widening scope of contrastive corpus linguistics
  • 4.Phraseology: The comparison of multi-word units
  • 5.Genres and text types in contrastive studies of lexis
  • 6.The chapters of the present volume
  • References
Published online: 23 November 2017
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