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Order ALC Freq. BC Freq.
1 procedure 48 results 82
2 words 45 earnings 50
3 word 35 firm 46
4 learning 28 variable 44
5 test 24 variables 39
6 language 23 size 36
7 task 23 issues 36
8 results 23 factors 34
9 items 19 returns 30
10 English 18 market 30
Table 9.2. The entities targeted in the SIMILARITY group in A DJ to N
Similar observations can be made about the adverbs found to collocate with the
pattern A DJ to N. These are given in Table 9.3 below: .
Order ALC Freq. BC Freq.
1 phonologically 24 positively 251
2 semantically 18 negatively 173
3 closely 16 significantly 69
4 directly 15 inversely 42
5 positively 11 directly 36
6 significantly 11 qualitatively 33
7 strongly 11 closely 30
8 morphologically 7 strongly 13
9 completely 6 generally 11
10 orthographically 6 statistically 7
Table 9.3. High-frequency ly adverbs with the SIMILARITY group in A DJ to N
The adverbs peculiar to ALC are associated with language description and emphasize
resemblances in terms of language features: phonologically, semantically, morphologically,
orthographically, phonetically (not in the list above) and structurally (not in the list above).
On the other hand, the adverbs peculiar to BC describe forms of statistical correlation, such as
positively, negatively, inversely, significantly and statistically. In other words, applied
linguistics discourse is likely to use this phraseology to relate organic but ambiguous
thingsmore internally observable things, whereas in the discourse of business studies it is
more likely to identify inorganic but scientific relations that is, externally observable things.
The prototypical example in this regard is the LSP equal to N, which expresses an equal
relation between entities. Consider the following concordance data:
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