EXPORT

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘export’ was the one hundred and twelfth most significant key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	bec freq.	bec.lst %	bnc freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
112	EXPORT	216	0.02	67	-	209.0	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody

Left: No groups identified.

Right: Three groups identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 161 & %	example
people/groups of people	34 - 21.11%	export advisor export development counsellor export manager
documentation	10 - 6.21%	export price list export form export vouchers
limitations/control	11 - 6.83%	export controls export restrictions export regulations

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	the export development	7
2	export development counsellors	6
3	import and export	6
4	personname export sales	6
5	companyname personname export	4
6	export development counsellor	4
7	export sales executive	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

Used overwhelmingly as a noun:

Verb: 6 instances - 3.72% of sample

Noun: 155 instances - 96.27% of the sample

COBUILD Sense 1 (verb - selling to another country)

6 instances - 3.72% of sample

Patterns: Verb/verb-noun-to

I am sending you details of companies who export to Indonesia

COBUILD Sense 1 (noun - the selling of products to another country)

153 instances - 95.03% of the sample

Patterns: Uncount noun

goods are supplied for export from the United Kingdom

ADDITIONAL sense - not in COBUILD: (an export file)

1 instance - 0.62% of sample

Patterns: Adjective

Auto-CAD export file

ADDITIONAL sense - not in COBUILD: (Export - the department)

1 instance - 0.62% of sample

Patterns: Uncount noun

Export receive signed PODs from Dublin ...

Other patterns:

i) A tendency to form part of post-modified compound nouns:

e.g. export department, export documentation, export markets, export orders, export sales

f) Associates

The word ‘export’ was key in 9 files. The only associate of frequency > =5 was ‘export’ itself.