Title: A lexical database of collocations in scientific English: preliminary considerations
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the theoretical principles underlying the making of a lexical database of English collocations of non-specialized words used in scientific language. This project was prompted by the shortage of reference tools providing information about the use and combinatorial properties of general words in specific registers. A case study will illustrate that in scientific texts, words, especially polysemous verbs, have a distinct semantic and combinatorial behaviour. Following the assumption that the meaning and the grammatical and collocational patterns of words are interrelated, we suggest that context-specific information should be included in specialized reference tools to facilitate the written production of scientific texts by nonnative speakers ofEnglish.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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