Focuses on the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover linguistic patterns selected and favored by a specific genre. Results show that the frameworks "the . . . of,""A . . . of," and "be . . .to," when used in medical papers, enclose restricted sets of lexical items and that the selection of specific…

Analysis of five biology and five biochemistry professional journal articles' use of the English present perfect tense revealed that both disciplines used the tense most frequently in the introduction and discussion sections, typically conveying the meaning of a past experience with current relevance. (CB)