RECEIVE

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘receive’ was the ninety-fifth most significant key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	bec freq.	bec.lst %	bnc freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
95	RECEIVE	534	0.05	369	0.02	231.7	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody

Left: Two groups identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 161 & %	example
people/companies/ institutions (who will receive)	81 - 50.31%	companies receive executives receive I will be delighted to receive
people (who will not receive)	16 - 9.93%	I did not receive a reply rebels did not receive the support

Right: One group identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 161 & %	example
money/stocks&shares	52 - 32.29%	receive a special interim dividend receive bonuses receive cash directly

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	to receive the	12
2	to receive a	8
3	entitled to receive	6
4	to receive cash	6
5	will receive a	6
6	did not receive	5
7	cost to receive	4
8	receive a complimentary	4
9	receive each page	4
10	to receive each	4
11	will not receive	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

i) COBUILD Sense 1 (get) 161 instances - 100% of sample.

Patterns: Verb/Noun

receive a reply, receive a penny, receive funding

The same two patterns noted with the word ‘sell’ are again in evidence with ‘receive’:

ii) verb + to + receive : 29 instances - 18.01% of sample (more personal verbs)

prefer to receive, expected to receive, entitled to receive

iii) verb(group) + and + receive : 7 instances - 4.34% of sample (more dynamic verbs)

restructure and receive, send and receive

f) Associates

The word ‘receive’ was key in 4 files. No associates of frequency > =5 were found.

3.4 CONFIRM

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘confirm’ was the two hundred and seventy-third most significant key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	Freq.	bec.lst %	Freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
273	CONFIRM	199	0.2	119	-	105.	0.00000

b) Semantic Prosody

n = 91

No clear groups identified, but see colligation section below.

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	to confirm that	8
2	to confirm the	8
3	confirm that the	7
4	can you confirm	6
5	I can confirm	4
6	pleased to confirm	4