“…A typical case in point is the renewed interest in lexical studies that have come about as a result of electronic corpus analysis. Recent work on the semantic association of words (collocation, semantic prosody, and semantic preference), such as Hunston (2008), Römer &Schulze (2010) andSook Beng &Chee Keong (2014), has been accomplished because of the availability of computer corpus tools. In the next sub-section, we consider what a corpus is, and also highlight the key issues for consideration in the construction of a corpus.…”