Textual colligation: a special kind of lexical priming
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Corpus linguistics has not attended much to text-linguistic issues. This paper argues that lexical choice has a major effect on features such as cohesion, Theme choice and paragraph division and that corpus investigation can shed light on the nature of the lexical choices made. It is argued that some lexis has a bias towards (or against) certain textual functions and that this is an inherent property of such lexis. It is also argued that lexical choices interlock, creating what I term colligational prosody.