Abstract
This corpus-based study has been conducted in the realm of phraseology aiming at providing similarity and discrepancy in the usage between two synonymous nouns;type and kind. It applies Sinclair’s (1991) Model of ‘expanded unit of meaning’. The analysis consists of four levels: Collocation, Colligation, Semantic Preference and Semantic Prosody with the help of three softwares: iWeb BYU corpus, Just the Word based on BNC and Sketch Engine, based on two corpora: iWeb corpus and BNC. Similarity with varying degrees between the use of the nodes at the levels of Colligation and Semantic Prosody is found, whereas discrepancy at the levels of Colligation and Semantic Preference is evident. The study is unique in providing a complete description of the node items at four levels, rarely found in the available studies and helpful for lexicography and ESL pedagogy by offering detailed, accurate and complete picture with reference to contemporary real life language use.

Mehwish Noor, Behzad Anwar. (2019) Acorpus-Based Analysis Of Two Synonyms: Typeand Kind, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1.
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