The Prepositions Verbs Associate with : A Corpus Investigation of Collocation in Prepositional Verbs

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Prepositional verbs such as focus on, listen to, and account for are much more common in all registers than phrasal verbs and are especially abundant in academic writing. These multi-word lexical items, however, tend to receive far less classroom attention than phrasal verbs and often prove to be a major source of error for even advanced learners of English. Through the examination of an academic writing sub-corpus of the British National Corpus, this study investigates the collocational strength of 192 different verb-preposition combinations in order to determine which ones collocate strongly enough to warrant their being taught as single lexical units. The verb-preposition combinations that collocate most strongly are presented and some implications of these findings for pedagogical practice in the area of prepositional verb instruction are subsequently discussed.
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