ABSTRACT
Due to the different sizes of LOCNESS and MLC, the above figures will be normalised to 10,000 words in order to have a clear picture of the difference in the use of collocations in the two corpora (de Haan, 1997: 216; de Haan, 1998). The normalised numbers for each lexical pattern will be given in Table 4.2 below. In other words, the figures in Table 4.2 are the total number of collocations for each lexical pattern divided by the total running words of the two corpora, then multiplied by 10,000 (see Section 3.4.3, where how the total number of collocations and the total number of normalised collocations are obtained for each collocational pattern was presented). The normalised figures in Table 4.2 represent the total number of collocations per 10,000 words.
