FREEDOM OF COMBINATION AND HETEROGENEITY: A CORPUS LINGUIST’S LOOK AT TWO SAUSSUREAN INSIGHTS

This article offers a reexamination of two of Saussure’s insights from the point of view of corpus linguistics—namely, freedom of combination and heterogeneity in language in use. Regarding the first insight, an analysis of word combinations in a corpus of newspaper texts written in Brazilian Portug...

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Main Author: Tony Berber Sardinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 2014-06-01
Series:Matraga
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Online Access:http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/matraga/article/view/17514