The Investigation of the Lexis of Thought: A Corpus-Based Study of Cognitive Nouns “Idea,” “Thought,” and “Notion” in American English
This corpus-based study investigates the near-synonymous cognitive nouns idea, thought, and notion using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The analysis examines genre distribution and verb–adjective collocational patterns to identify usage-based constraints on their interchangeability. Frequency resul...