Construct · 1 fields · 1 citations

lockwords: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a standalone construct Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed

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Corpus linguistics

words whose frequency stays similar across compared corpora, the stable counterpart of keywords in diachronic and comparative work.

In corpus linguistics, lockwords refers to words whose frequency stays similar across compared corpora, the stable counterpart of keywords in diachronic and comparative work. This meaning comes from Baker (2010) in Journal of English Linguistics.[1]

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Nearby constructs

corpus1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct frequency4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs work4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Baker, P. (2010). Times May Change, But We Will Always Have Money: Diachronic Variation in Recent British English. Journal of English Linguistics, 39(1), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424210368368

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