A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study on Collocation Behavior of Noun—Taking “Ability” as Example

Abstract

In this paper, the written English corpus of Chinese learners (WECCL) is chosen as the corpus base for the study, and the louvain corpus of native English essays (LOCNESS) is used as the reference corpus for native speakers of English. This paper analyzes the characteristics and problems of Chinese learners of English in terms of verb, adjective and preposition collocation and colligation when using the noun ability. The results of the study show that there are some differences be-周敏