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Grammatical collocations in English exam texts written by Czech secondary-school students

Authors

SLÁDKOVÁ Věra

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Patterns and Variation in English Language Discourse: 9th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0212-2022
Keywords post-verbal complementation; grammatical collocations; colligations; non-finite clauses; complementation patterns; two-verb sequences; infinitive clauses; ing-clauses
Description This paper focuses on the frequency and accuracy of five types of grammatical collocations G8E-G8I (Benson et al. 1986) in CZEMATELC, an English language learner corpus (8,338 types; 211,503 tokens) consisting of 1,841 English exam texts from the written part of the national school-leaving exams between 2015 and 2019. The findings reveal the prevalence of A1-A2 CEFR level colligations relying on a limited number of verb lemmas, a wide incorrect pattern variation and a preference for patterns that are also the most frequent patterns of their Czech equivalents.
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