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Don't want to repeat myself, but I think there's a strong case to be made
for LOCAL semantic prosidies (see my PhD for a discussion
http://www.ctribble.co.uk/text/Phd/06%20Lexical%20dimensions%20P.pdf)

This accounts for Georg Marko's problems as well as helping explain how the
provenance of this instance (financial services - where you pay more for
PERSONAL advice) makes "personal price" acceptable, whereas it wouldn't in
e.g. political science discourse.

Best

Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]On
> Behalf Of Mark G Lee
> Sent: 22 October 2003 15:26
> To: CORPORA at HD.UIB.NO; martin.wynne at ota.ahds.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] Corpus linguistics in everyday life
>
>
> Dear Martin
>
> >Can anyone actually find a positive example?
>
> How about
>
> http://www.bupa.co.uk/about/asp/adverts/cartoons/
>
> "BUPA's Heartbeat personal health cover is tailored to fit your health
> and circumstances. This means you pay a PERSONAL PRICE not an average
> one."
>
> Presumably personal prices are better than average prices.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>