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...

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Publicado en:	World Englishes Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 370 - 389
Autores principales:	Afzal, Saima, Ang, Leng Hong, Abdul Rahim, Hajar
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2026
Materias:	Collocation (Linguistics) Language transfer (Language learning) Postcolonialism Corpora English language in foreign countries Native language Acquisition of data Pakistan
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