It is claimed that corpus-based studies can provide much more fine-grained descriptions of word meanings and usage that are not accounted for in traditional dictionaries. Explain the benefits of corpora for language descriptions by taking as an example collocational patterns of one of the following pairs of the approximately synonymous adjectives. You can use the BNC or any other representative corpus of English. Compare your results with dictionary entries (e.g. the Oxford English Dictionary). Which meanings have not been accounted for? (max. 300 words).
- a) CONTEMPORARY vs. CURRENT
- b) LETHAL vs. DEADLY
- c) MOUNTING vs. SOARING
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