This thesis is about two things. Firstly, drawing on Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming, it aims to extend the research represented in that book – into the roots of the concept of priming and into how far Hoey’s claims are valid for spoken English corpora. The thesis traces the deve…
This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'. Crucially, the occurrence pattern of such pairs is dependent on genr…
"Michael Pace-Sigge has produced a fascinating, rigorous and at times surprising account of linked noun groups that will become required reading for anyone interested in a corpus-driven description of this phenomenon."--Michael Hoey, Professor Emeritus, University of Liverpool, …