Unpacking the Building Blocks: A Corpus-Based Exploration of Korean Lexical Bundles

Abstract

The identification of grammatical functions and distributions of formulaic expressions or lexical bundles is crucial for understanding the cognitive building blocks of languages and identifying linguistic properties of specific registers or genres. Over the past two decades, corpus-based studies led by Douglas Biber and his collaborators have significantly contributed to the examination of lexical bundles in English, making them a major topic in linguistics, second language acquisition, and language pedagogy. This presentation focuses on a corpus-based investigation of Korean formulaic sequences, using a refined combinatoric morphemic bundle approach aligned with agglutinative typological properties