2. a dictionary of collocations plus companion volumes is the BBI now
published as:
Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson. 1997. The BBI Dictionary of
English Word Combinations. Revised Edition. John Benjamins: Amsterdam,
Philadelphia.
plus
Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson. 1986. Lexicographic
Description of English. Studies in Language Companion Series Volume 14.
Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson, Young. 1991. Using the BBI:
A Workbook exercises for the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English.
Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamins Publishing.
3. VAN DER WOUDEN, TON. 1997. NEGATIVE CONTEXTS. COLLOCATIONS, POLARITY
AND MULTIPLE NEGATION. ROUTLEDGE: LONDON, NEW YORK.
has a good introductory section on collocations
Happy corpusing!
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Sabine Bartsch
TU Darmstadt - Dept. of Linguistics & Literature
Hochschulstraße 1
64289 Darmstadt
Germany
phone: ++49-6151-16-4570
eMail: bartsch@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
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