Adverb-Adjective Combinations in Health Sciences: A Collocational Perspective
Vicent Andreu, M. J. Coperías, José Santaemilia · 1998
Through this paper we aim at studying adverb-adjective combinations from a perspective of use in written texts, both from the formal use of language as well as semantically and collocationally. The samples used are drawn from two corpora: texts from health sciences and from literary criticism. Teaching language, whether to health science students or students of philology, makes one realize that not everything has to do with syntactical accuracy. We must also be concerned with expressions that may sound correct in terms of syntax, but that they are often affected not only by its semantic nuances but also by differences according to specialism.