Frequent lexical patterns can explain how language, society and culture interact. In this paper, we analyze the most frequent adjectival collocates which precede lemmas WOMAN and MAN, by searching the node words woman , women , man and men in the British National Corpus (BNC) using the statistical procedure list . The primary postulate is that frequent collocational patterns reveal common societal and cultural concepts. The research is based on Sinclair's theory about how frequency points to what is typical and central in a language (17). Furthermore, Stubbs's understanding of a community's value system being built up and maintained by the recurrent use of particular phrasings in texts ( Words and Phrases 166) is explored through the repetition of lexical patterns in the corpus, thus exposing dominant cultural models.
Corpus-based research into derivational morphology can explain how affixes function, answer questions about their productivity and its relation to their synonymy, and clarify the rivalry between certain affixes and their semantic distinction. The aim of this research is to establish the similarities and differences between the nouns normality and normalcy by contrasting the suffixes -ity and -cy they contain in the British National Corpus (BNC). The focus is on the collocates which precede the nouns and the sources in which they appear. The attempt is also to understand what characterises the suffixes and their distribution. By focusing on normality and normalcy, we examine how lexical items behave in an electronically-stored corpus and whether a strong connection between meaning and form manifests itself in different word patterns highlighting different aspects of meaning.
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