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al and cultural aspects. Corpus-based study is based on large amounts of real data and  samples.  For  example,  semantic  prosody,  as  a  semantic  imagination  between certain  word  and  its  collocations,  focuses  on  the  collocations  based  on  corpus  and relies on the collocations, which expands the study boundary as a complementary part for traditional lexics. So a corpus-based study will be beneficial to analyze the process of lexicalization and grammaticalization.       By  comprehensive  analysis  of  the  English  word  bling  and  the  Chinese  word ―Xing(性), this study will analyze the collected data by observing semantic meanings, usage properties, and expanding process.   
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1.2 Purpose and Significance of This Research 
The  ongoing  research  gives  a  comprehensive  analysis  of  the  two  words respectively,  the  English  word  bling  and  the  Chinese  word  ―Xing(性),  by  corpus study and related theoretical support. Aims and potential significance of the study are laid out as follows:  Firstly,  through  analyzing  from  various  aspects  based  on  corpus,  it  produces  a relatively  new  methodology  for  case  study,  which  is  helpful  to  understand  the processes and linguistic terms in return.  Secondly, the results of the study could supply feedback and supplement, if any, to the theories of grammaticalization and lexicalization. And it shall hopefully become an illustration of future studies.  Thirdly,  by  introducing  the  idea  of  semantic  prosody,  it  will  enrich  people‘s knowledge of word-combination, strengthen the understanding of the word meanings, and lead the attention to collocation phrases and semantic tendency. Besides, it will be helpful for language teaching and dictionary editing.  Finally,  the  changing  of  semantic  meaning  in  grammaticalization  and lexicalization processes could be a supply to demonstrate the inner and outer aspects influencing the mechanism of word changing.  
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2 Literature Review 

In  this  chapter,  academic  literature  related  to  this  field  is  reviewed  for  the convenience of setting up research background, such as corpus linguistics, collocation, semantic  prosody,  semantic  change,  lexicalization  and  grammanticalization,  as  there should be, a summary.

2.1 A Brief Review of Corpus 
Corpus refers to a large collection of well-sampled and processed electronic texts, on  which  language  studies,  theoretical  or  applied,  can  be  conducted  with  the  aid  of computer tools. According to Tognini-bonelli (2001: 2), a corpus could be defined as a collocation of texts assumed to be representative of a given language put together so that it can be 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。