EMPLOYEE

a) Keyness

The lemma ‘employee’ was the three hundred and seventh most key word in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	Freq.	bec.lst %	Freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
74	EMPLOYEE	307	0.03	94	-	299.6	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody:

Left: One small group identified. Additionally, there were examples found of the nature of the employees’ relationship to the company (direct employee, long-term employee) but not enough to constitute a recognisable group.

semantic prosody	frequency/122 & %	example
employee’s company	12 -9.83%	Each Companyname employee must avoid conflicts a former Emerson employee

Right: One group identified concerning benefits provided by the company for the employees.

semantic prosody	frequency/122 & %	example
employee benefits	17 - 13.93%	key personnel employee benefits employee retirement plan employee health care employee restaurants

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	employee stock ownership	5
2	by the employee	4
3	the employee shall	4
4	the employee will	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

COBUILD Sense 1 (a person who is paid to work for an organisation or another person)

100% of sample (only one sense given in COBUILD)

Pattern: Count noun

If an employee is employed monthly ...

Other patterns:

i) Indefinite expressions of amount: (each, every)

7 instances - 5.73% of sample

Each employee is required to protect the group’s interest

Every employee has an impact

f) Associates

N	WORD	NO. OF FILES	AS %
1	EMPLOYEE	8	100.00
2	COMPANY	6	75.00
3	BUSINESS	6	75.00
4	TAX	5	62.50