Nadja Nesselhauf, Collocations in a Learner Corpus John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005, xii +331 pp

摘要

Collocations are a feature of natural languages that are not well addressed by current models used for NLP. Language is full of word combinations that occur more frequently than expected, are semantically opaque, or show surprising syntactic restrictions. In her book, Nesselhauf studies collocations in a corpus of second language learner (L2) English. She focuses on German advanced learners of English and describes how these learners use collocations and what mistakes they make. She analyses what factors influence the mastery of collocations and what material interferes with learning.