In a contrastive study we conducted recently (Silva 2006), we found that applying a simple n-gram tool such as the one used in the Corpógrafo to a bilingual corpus of comparable texts in Portuguese and in English allows the identification of significant MWUs or lexical bundles.

The brochures basically told the same story Stan had given me: Pacific Properties owned a gagillion places that generated a gagillion dollars. The implication was that if you didn't invest you just didn't care about making easy money with no risk whatsoever to your original investment.

The place fosters regional art, far from the coastal cultural establishment, and its most thriving medium is quiltmaking.

I had been considering several different groups for my thesis project, and at first had resisted writing about the trans-identified male community.