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This concept of responsibility for something negative is also expressed with the
extended LSP (M O D A L) be held liable/accountable for N in BC. It accounts for 10 of the
total 34 examples in liable for N (29%) and 7 of the total 16 examples in accountable for N
(about 50%):
This suggests that business studies researchers take a fairly direct and clear-
you will have to pay for it in ALC, in contrast, this message is hardly found at
all, largely because issues of legality are unlikely to be targeted as the research (subject) of
most subdisciplines within applied linguistics. There are of course exceptions to this, such as
language policy and politically committed branches of sociolinguistics. This caveat
notwithstanding, it remains the case that the two disciplines focus on different things, leading
to the disparity of subject matters between the two disciplines as manifested in the patterns
analysed here.
9.2.3. Inherence
The third attribute is inherence. Unlike the semantic groups previously discussed, the
inherence group particularly indicates the relation between inanimate things and their locus,
or something exists as a part of something or not. Adjectives in this group are present,
inherent and implicit in the pattern A DJ in N. Table 9.20 below summarizes adjectives of this
group in the pattern A DJ in N in both corpora.
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