The nativization of verb–noun collocations in Pakistani English.
This study examines an under–explored feature of Outer Circle Englishes: the nativization of verbnoun collocations in written Pakistani English (PakE). Using a 5–million–word Pakistani Acrolectal Variety of English corpus, with the British National Corpus 2014 as a reference, statistically salient c...
| Publicado en: | World Englishes Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 370 - 389 |
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