The acquisition of phraseological units by advanced learners of French as an L2: High-frequency verbs and learner corpora

Bolly, Catherine
(2009) The advanced learner variety: The case of French — ISBN: [978-3-03911-072-8], 199-220, published

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This chapter analyzes written phraseological units or (semi-) fixed lexical combinations with the two high-frequency verbs "donner" ("give") and "prendre" ("take"). The L2 French corpus FRIDA (French interlanguage database) contains argumentative texts written by L1 English learners and the control corpus is made of texts written by French university students. The results of quantitative, parametric and statistical analyses in terms of overuse, underuse and misuse reveal significant differences between "prendre" and "donner" in the frequency of use, phraseological units being underused with "prendre" but overused with "donner".
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Bolly, C. (2009). The acquisition of phraseological units by advanced learners of French as an L2: High-frequency verbs and learner corpora. In Emmanuelle Labeau, Florence Myles (ed.), The advanced learner variety: The case of French (pp. 199-220). Peter Lang. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/153281