This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as "make a decision, give rise to" and "take care of" in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field to incorporate corpora of the learner s L1 to investigate the effects of L1 influence. The book provides a highly detailed and multi-faceted analysis of delexical verb + noun collocations in terms of frequency of occurrence, lexical preferences and morphosyntactic patterns. Quantitative and qualitative results on overuse, underuse and errors are presented with linguistically and pedagogically relevant interpretations that even include cultural and discourse aspects. More importantly, the book throws light on how L2 learners alternate between the "open-choice principle" and the "idiom principle" as well as the extent and nature of L1 influence on their collocational use."