[Corpora-List] Key coll-frames

[Przemek Kaszubski]

Dear All,

Is there a tool available (preferably for Windows) that can produce 
positive and negative key collocational frameworks* in a comparison of 
two corpora? WordSmith can produce key words and key clusters/bundles, 
but not key-frames with open slots. Ideally, the length and number of 
empty frames should also be customisable (X1Y, X2Y, XY1Z etc)**.

I'd be grateful for any pointers. A while ago I tried Bill Fletcher's 
kfNgram tool but it seemed not to offer this functionality.

I also include below titles of papers known to me that discuss 
collocational frameworks (also in ESL context). Additions welcome.

Przemek


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*Renouf, Antoinette and John M. Sinclair. 1991. "Collocational 
frameworks in English". In: Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), 
English corpus linguistics. Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik, pp. 128-143.

**Eeg-Olofsson, M. and Bengt Altenberg. 1994. "Discontinuous recurrent 
word combinations in the London-Lund Corpus". In: Fries, Udo, Gunnel 
Tottie and P. Schneider (eds.), Creating and using English language 
corpora: Papers from the 14th ICAME International Conference, pp. 63-77.

Butler, Christopher S. 1998. "Collocational Frameworks in Spanish", 
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3, 1.

Butler, Christopher S. 2005. "Formulaic language: An overview with 
particular reference to the cross-linguistic perspective", in: 
Christopher S. Butler – María de los Ángeles Gómez-González – Susana M. 
Doval-Suárez (eds.), The dynamics of language use. Functional and 
contrastive perspectives, John Benjamins. 221-242.

Yoon, Hyunsook and Alan Hirvela. 2004. "ESL student attitudes toward 
corpus use in L2 writing". Journal of Second Language Writing 13: 257-283.

Stubbs, Michael. 2004. On very frequent phrases in English: 
Distributions, functions and structures. (Plenary lecture given at ICAME 
25, the 25th anniversary meeting of the International Computer Archive 
for Modern and Medieval English, Verona, 19-23 May 2004. (modifid ver: 
http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/anglistik/Projekte/stubbs/icame-2004.htm).

Luzon Marco, M. J. 2000. "Collocational frameworks in medical research 
papers: a genre-based study", English for Specific Purposes 19, 1: 63-86.

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