Michael Lewis’s scientific contributions

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The Lexical Approach: The state of ELT and a way forward
  • Book

January 1993

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Michael Lewis

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... There is a wide terminology for delexical verbs. According to Butt (2003), Elenbaas (2011) and Huddleston & Pullum (2002)) they are called delexical verbs or light verbs; Hill (2000) and Lewis (1993) named them delexicalised verbs; Dura and Gawronska (2008) called them support/supportive verbs; Live (1973) termed them lexically empty verbs; Akimoto (1989) named them verbo-nominal phrases and Dušková (2003) called them verbo-nominal predication. Although this varied terminology, they contain very weak meaning, as opposed to their complements. ...

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EFL Learners' Receptive Knowledge of Congruent and Non-Congruent Delexical Verb-Noun Collocations
The Lexical Approach: The state of ELT and a way forward
  • Citing Book
  • January 1993