PAYMENT
a) Keyness
The
lemma ‘payment’ was the eighty-second most significant key word in the BEC
corpus.
|
N |
Word |
bec freq. |
bec.lst % |
bnc freq. |
bnc.lst % |
Keyness |
P |
|
82 |
PAYMENT |
321 |
0.03 |
115 |
- |
280.08 |
0.000000 |
b) Semantic Prosody
Left:
|
semantic prosody |
frequency/197 & % |
example |
|
timing/scheduling
of payment |
20
- 10.15% |
annual payment April payment final payment |
|
type
of payment |
17
- 8.62% |
credit card payment cash payment |
Right:
No
clear groups but see the colligation section below for repeated prepositional
usage.
c) Three-word clusters
|
N |
cluster |
Freq. |
|
1 |
payment
in full |
7 |
|
2 |
terms
of payment |
5 |
|
3 |
lump
sum payment |
4 |
|
4 |
of
the price |
4 |
|
5 |
payment
in the |
4 |
|
6 |
payment
of any |
4 |
|
7 |
payment
of the |
4 |
|
8 |
the
payment of |
4 |
|
9 |
the
payment terms |
4 |
d) Macro-generic distribution
e) Colligation
COBUILD
Sense 1 (an amount of money paid to someone or the act of paying it)
105
instances - 53.29% of sample
Patterns:
Count noun
a
discount for annual payment, a cash payment,
COBUILD
Sense 2 (act of paying money or of being paid)
89
instances - 45.17% of sample
Patterns:
Uncount noun
payment
terms, payment procedure
Other
COBUILD definitions:
down payment: 3 instances - 1.52%
Other
patterns:
Prepositional
collocation is used notably with this word in the following ways:
i) payment
+ by (referring to date/person/company):
payment
by credit card, payment by the 28th, payment by the Buyer
6
instances - 3.04% of sample
ii) payment + for (referring to product/service/money)
payment
for the products, payment for our order
10
instances - 5.07% of sample
iii) payment + of (referring to money)
payment
of accounts, payment of any duties, payment of indemnities
19
instances - 9.64% of sample
iv) payment + to (referring to people/company)
payment
to our cash section at
7
instances - 3.55% of sample
also:
v) A
strong tendency to form part of pre- and post-modified two-word noun phrases :
57
instances - 28.93%
of sample:
payment
problems, payment procedures, payment terms, down payment
f) Associates
|
N |
WORD |
NO. OF FILES |
AS % |
|
1 |
PAYMENT |
17 |
100.00 |
|
2 |
THE |
7 |
41.18 |
|
3 |
OR |
7 |
41.18 |
|
4 |
ANY |
7 |
41.18 |
|
5 |
BY |
7 |
41.18 |
|
6 |
INVOICE |
6 |
35.29 |
|
7 |
SHALL |
6 |
35.29 |
|
8 |
PRICE |
5 |
29.41 |
|
9 |
WILL |
5 |
29.41 |
|
10 |
GOODS |
5 |
29.41 |
|
11 |
DELIVERY |
5 |
29.41 |
|
12 |
CONTRACT |
5 |
29.41 |
|
13 |
OF |
5 |
29.41 |
|
14 |
NOTICE |
5 |
29.41 |