Author： Cheng Winnie
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN： 1569-9811|11|3|325-344
ISSN： 1384-6655
Source： International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol.11, Iss.3, 2006-01, pp. : 325-344
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Abstract
The study reported in this paper applies Sinclair’s (2004) descriptive model of lexical items, which consists of five categories of co-selection: two obligatory categories the core and semantic prosody, and three optional categories collocation, colligation and semantic preference. The study examines a selection of spoken discourse events collected in Hong Kong during and in the immediate aftermath of the SARS crisis in 2003. These discourse events form part of the
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