Publications

Publication details [#46172]

Hammarberg, Björn and Inge Bartning. 2007. The functions of a high-frequency collocation in native and learner discourse: The case of French c'est and Swedish det är. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 45 (1) : 1–43.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

collocation | crosslinguistic perspective | interlanguage | native speaker | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

French | Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This cross-linguistic analysis explores the use and functionality of one specific high-frequency linguistic collocation, viz. the French 'c'est' and the Swedish 'det är', both meaning ‘it is’, in native and learner discourse.