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A Comparative Study of the Collocations of Get in Two Novels

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Information and Business Intelligence (IBI 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 268))

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Adopting the corpus-based approach, the present study analyzes the collocational behavior of the frequently used word ‘get’ in two novels. A comparison is drawn between its use in the two novels and between these uses and the items from the modern dictionary. The statistics on the objective data reveal slight discrepancies in the use of get by the two writers. The major finding is that sense 2 takes high percentage of the sense distribution in both novels. And Pattern A of sense 2 takes a superior percentage in the sense distribution. This paper aims to highlight the important role of the corpus-based collocational research in English vocabulary teaching.

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  1. Teaching and Research Institute of Foreign Languages, Bohai University, 19 Sci-tech Road, High&New Technological and Industrial Development District, Jinzhou City, 121000, Liaoning Province, China

    Weiwei Du

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  1. Hunan Institute of Engineering, 88 Fuxing Dong Road, 411104, Xiangtan, Hunan, China

    Xilong Qu

  2. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Dianxinqunlou 1-401, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Yuhang Yang

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Du, W. (2012). A Comparative Study of the Collocations of Get in Two Novels. In: Qu, X., Yang, Y. (eds) Information and Business Intelligence. IBI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29087-9_41

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