Graeme Kennedy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Graeme Kennedy is involved.
2008 Phraseology and language pedagogy: Semantic preference associated with English verbs in the British National Corpus Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Meunier, Fanny and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 21–41 | Article
The key role of phraseology in language acquisition and use has been recognised by a number of distinguished linguists during the twentieth century. Research in cognitive science has shown that frequency of occurrence and frequency of experience establishes words and collocations as units of… read more
2002 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Reppen, Randi, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 73–90 | Chapter
1999 Successful Turn-bidding in English Conversation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
This paper reports a study of the phenomenon of successful turn-bidding (STB) in a corpus of English conversation taken from the London-Lund Corpus of spoken English. It analyses the features of the language environment associated with turn-bidding speech acts and the linguistic devices which are… read more



