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Chapter 6: Multiword units

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© 2016 John Benjamins

© 2016 John Benjamins

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction xi
  5. Section 1: The uses of word lists
  6. Chapter 1: Word lists 3
  7. Section 2: Deciding what to count as words
  8. Chapter 2: Types, lemmas, word families 23
  9. Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes 41
  10. Chapter 4: Proper names 55
  11. Chapter 5: Hyphenated words and transparent compounds 65
  12. Chapter 6: Multiword units 71
  13. Chapter 7: Marginal words and foreign words 81
  14. Chapter 8: Acronyms 85
  15. Chapter 9: Function words 89
  16. Section 3: Choosing and preparing the corpus
  17. Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design 95
  18. Chapter 11: Preparation for making word lists 107
  19. Section 4: Making the lists
  20. Chapter 12: Taking account of your purpose 113
  21. Chapter 13: Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists 131
  22. Chapter 14: Specialized word lists 145
  23. Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners 153
  24. Section 5: Using the lists
  25. Chapter 16: Using word lists 171
  26. Appendix 1: Proper noun tagging in the BNC 183
  27. Appendix 2: Closed lexical set headwords 187
  28. Appendix 3: The Essential Word List 188
  29. References 197
  30. Author index 207
  31. Subject index 209
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
This chapter is in the book Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.208.c6

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction xi
  5. Section 1: The uses of word lists
  6. Chapter 1: Word lists 3
  7. Section 2: Deciding what to count as words
  8. Chapter 2: Types, lemmas, word families 23
  9. Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes 41
  10. Chapter 4: Proper names 55
  11. Chapter 5: Hyphenated words and transparent compounds 65
  12. Chapter 6: Multiword units 71
  13. Chapter 7: Marginal words and foreign words 81
  14. Chapter 8: Acronyms 85
  15. Chapter 9: Function words 89
  16. Section 3: Choosing and preparing the corpus
  17. Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design 95
  18. Chapter 11: Preparation for making word lists 107
  19. Section 4: Making the lists
  20. Chapter 12: Taking account of your purpose 113
  21. Chapter 13: Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists 131
  22. Chapter 14: Specialized word lists 145
  23. Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners 153
  24. Section 5: Using the lists
  25. Chapter 16: Using word lists 171
  26. Appendix 1: Proper noun tagging in the BNC 183
  27. Appendix 2: Closed lexical set headwords 187
  28. Appendix 3: The Essential Word List 188
  29. References 197
  30. Author index 207
  31. Subject index 209
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