Abstract
Strictly speaking, compound words might not be a collocational matter. However, as shown in Section 4.3.3, more than 25 per cent (469 examples) of the 1779 lexical terms recorded as first-citations from Dickens in the OED2 are compound words. This indicates Dickens’ predilection for new combinations of two or more words and enables us to regard compound words newly created in Bleak House as a characteristic of his language use, or as one of Dickens’ creative collocational types.
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Hori, M. (2004). New Compound Words as Collocations in Bleak House . In: Investigating Dickens’ Style. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000766_8
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