Semantic prosody and collocation: A corpus study of the near-synonyms persist and persevere
Near-synonyms in English often cause considerable confusion among EFL students. This study aims to clarify this confusion through a corpus-based investigation of the target synonymous verbs persist and persevere with focus on distribution across genres, collocations, and semantic preference/prosody....
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Language: | English |
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Hacettepe University
2021-04-01
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Series: | Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://www.ejal.info/index.php/ejal/article/view/322 |