Chapter 6
Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern
English
Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Corpus and methodology
- 3.The analysis
- 3.1Structure variable
- 3.2Chronological distribution
- 3.3Genre variable
- 3.4Semantic categorisation
- 3.5Reversibility of components
- 4.Conclusions
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Notes
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