Grammatical collocations in English exam texts written by Czech secondary-school students
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Patterns and Variation in English Language Discourse: 9th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0212-2022 |
| Keywords | post-verbal complementation; grammatical collocations; colligations; non-finite clauses; complementation patterns; two-verb sequences; infinitive clauses; ing-clauses |
| Description | This paper focuses on the frequency and accuracy of five types of grammatical collocations G8E-G8I (Benson et al. 1986) in CZEMATELC, an English language learner corpus (8,338 types; 211,503 tokens) consisting of 1,841 English exam texts from the written part of the national school-leaving exams between 2015 and 2019. The findings reveal the prevalence of A1-A2 CEFR level colligations relying on a limited number of verb lemmas, a wide incorrect pattern variation and a preference for patterns that are also the most frequent patterns of their Czech equivalents. |
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