The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence : A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations.

Intro -- Table of contents -- Selected abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Areas of inquiry: The idiom principle and L1 influence -- 1.3 Research questions -- 1.4 Analytical framework: The Integrated Contrastive Model -- 1.5 English learning and teaching in China and Sweden -- 1.6 The structure of the book -- 2. Data and methodology -- 2.1 Introductory remarks -- 2.2 Corpora -- 2.2.1 Learner corpora -- 2.2.2 TL control corpus -- 2.2.3 L1 corpora -- 2.3 Identifying delexical verb + noun collocations -- 2.3.1 Criteria used to identify delexical verb + noun collocations -- 2.3.2 Syntactic patterns included -- 2.3.3 Syntactic patterns excluded -- 2.3.4 L1 verbs -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Frequency of occurrence -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Token frequencies of delexical verb + noun collocations -- 3.2.1 An overall picture -- 3.2.2 Frequencies of the six groups of delexical verb + noun collocations -- 3.3 Type/token ratio -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- 4. Noun collocates -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Searching for collocates in the BNC -- 4.3 Semantic fields -- 4.4 Noun collocates of have -- 4.4.1 Semantic preferences of have/had in the BNC -- 4.4.2 Semantic preferences of have in the five main corpora -- 4.5 Noun collocates of get -- 4.5.1 Semantic preferences of get/got in the BNC -- 4.5.2 Semantic preferences of get in the IL, TL and L1 corpora -- 4.6 Noun collocates of give -- 4.6.1 Semantic preferences of give/gave in the BNC -- 4.6.2 Semantic preferences of give in the IL, TL and L1 corpora -- 4.7 Noun collocates of take -- 4.7.1 Semantic preferences of take/took in the BNC -- 4.7.2 Semantic preferences of take in the IL, TL and L1 corpora -- 4.8 Noun collocates of make -- 4.8.1 Semantic preferences of make/made in the BNC -- 4.8.2 Frequent noun collocates of make in the IL, TL and L1 corpora.

4.9 Noun collocates of do -- 4.9.1 Semantic preferences of doing in the BNC -- 4.9.2 Frequent noun collocates of do in the IL, TL and L1 corpora -- 4.10 Summary -- 5. Morphosyntactic features of delexical verb + noun collocations -- 5.1 Introductory remarks -- 5.2 Morphology of the noun collocate -- 5.2.1 An overall picture -- 5.2.2 Proportions of the three categories of noun collocates associated with the six verbs -- 5.3 The determiner -- 5.3.1 An overall view -- 5.3.2 Types of determiner in association with the six verbs -- 5.4 Postmodification -- 5.4.1 An overall picture -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- 6. Errors and unidiomatic usage -- 6.1 Introductory remarks -- 6.2 Types of error or unidiomatic usage -- 6.3 Distribution of different types of error in the learner data -- 6.3.1 Overall results: Proportions of erroneous or unidiomatic usage -- 6.3.2 Errors in have + noun collocations -- 6.3.3 Errors in get + noun collocations -- 6.3.4 Errors in make + noun collocations -- 6.3.5 Errors in do + noun collocations -- 6.3.6 Errors in take + noun collocations -- 6.3.7 Errors in give + noun collocations -- 6.4 Discussion and conclusion -- 7. Summary and conclusions -- 7.1 Introductory remarks -- 7.2 Summary of the results -- 7.3 Pedagogical implications -- 7.4 Suggestions for further research -- References -- Appendix I. Noun collocates in the BNC -- Appendix II. Noun collocates in the learner corpora -- Appendix III. Morphosyntactic features -- Appendix IV. Errors -- Index.

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