CORPORATE

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘corporate’ was the forty-second most significant key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	bec freq.	bec.lst %	bnc freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
42	CORPORATE	277	0.03	33		410.6	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody

Left: One small group identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 278 & %	example
extremes	23 - 8.27%	almost $8 billion worth of corporate debt heavy corporate tax issue powerful corporate brands

Right: Four groups identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 278 & %	example
money/finance	50 - 17.98%	corporate bonds corporate earnings corporate insolvency
people/groups of people	36 - 12.94%	corporate customer corporate executive corporate staff
places	19 - 6.83%	corporate America corporate Korea corporate head quarters
business activities	35 - 12.58%	corporate development corporate management corporate takeovers

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	corporate finance #	5
2	corporate head office	4
3	finance #	4
4	to the corporate	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

Only 1 sense given in COBUILD (relating to business corporations or a particular business corporation)

100% of sample

Patterns: Adjective, adjective-noun

Other patterns:

i) Strong tendency to form compound nouns:

corporate bonds, corporate borrowers, corporate customers,

corporate finance, corporate headquarters, corporate identity, corporate profits, corporate recovery

f) Associates

N	WORD	NO. OF FILES	AS %
1	CORPORATE	17	100.00
2	COMPANY	9	52.94
3	COMPANIES	9	52.94
4	BUSINESS	8	47.06
5	MANAGEMENT	7	41.18
6	MARKET	7	41.18
7	FINANCIAL	7	41.18
8	PROFIT	7	41.18
9	SHARE	6	35.29
10	TERM	6	35.29
11	OUR	6	35.29
12	YEAR	6	35.29
13	SALES	5	29.41
14	CAPITAL	5	29.41
15	CASH	5	29.41
16	SYSTEMS	5	29.41
17	ASSETS	5	29.41
18	ACCOUNTING	5	29.41
19	INVESTMENTS	5	29.41
20	GROUP	5	29.41
21	EARNINGS	5	29.41
22	CUSTOMERS	5	29.41
23	COMPANY'S	5	29.41
24	ITS	5	29.41