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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 115–132

Chapter 6
Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English

Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpus and methodology
  • 3.The analysis
    • 3.1Structure variable
    • 3.2Chronological distribution
    • 3.3Genre variable
    • 3.4Semantic categorisation
    • 3.5Reversibility of components
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.06bat
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