The results show that even though the two halves present a balanced distribution of the adverb -116 hits for the first half (2.54 p/mil), 266 (2.46 p/mil) for the second-, the gradual completion verbs that dramaticamente begins to collocate with in contemporary Spanish are far more frequent in the second period.
But in order to remedy the inequities that Olsen admits exist in the Tresor, we have sought the frequencies and collocates of those target words in a data base modified to include women's writing.
Collocates can be subjected to several tests which allow to quantify this probability and estimate how statistically significant the co-occurrence between node and collocate is.
The fact that the noun cell carries here the feature 'living being' is not obvious from the adjectival collocate. The use of abnormal in the attributive position does not fully predict a noun with a 'living being' meaning--e.g.
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I draw readers' attention to the expression, 'denied of' which occurs in the following context: 'churches are being denied of certificates.' Let us note in particular the particle of that the writer allows to collocate with the verb denied.
Since reference corpora are not involved, delexicalization and relexicalization are absent from her analysis, not to mention the subtler forms (e.g., when an absent but frequent collocate interacts with those in the text).