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The research reported in this thesis has two main aims. The first aim is to develop tests capable of yielding reliable and valid scores of receptive knowledge of English collocations as a single construct, for use with advanced L2 learners of English. Collocations are seen as conventionalized, recurring combinations of words, and the targeted types are adjective + NP and verb + NP. The second aim
The initial part of this paper presents an overview of research conducted on switching costs and their implications. Different types of switching costs are identified and categorised according to available research and examples are given. Further, switching costs are with the help of previous research put in relation to various business actions we may encounter on an everyday basis and how they af
During the twentieth century, Sweden became known as a country with an unusually egalitarian distribution of income and wealth, an encompassing welfare state, and an exceptionally strong social democracy. It is commonplace among historians and social scientists to consider these equal outcomes of the twentieth century as the logical end result of a much longer historical trajectory of egalitariani
