most keywords are nouns
key keywords form webs
lexis is grammatical
one can tell a word by the company it keeps
computer tools don't do the thinking
plots bring insights
words cluster just as people do
much depends on the genre
a lot depends on the corpus
if nouns are bricks, are verbs mortar?
linguists should study content as well as form
is the chip mightier than the pen?
type/token ratio is too sensitive to corpus size
this is data-driven learning (Johns)
lexical patterns betray cultural patterns
what characterises text boundaries?
much can be inferred from what is absent
disambiguation is possible
even inflection affects word patterning
most sentences begin with full-stops (Chris Tribble)
in the beginning was the word (Philip King)
some words are lonelier than others (Firth)
carnudos substantivos e verbos esguios (Lispector)