Idioms and Collocations
Corpus-based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies
Published on 8. March 2007
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-8264-8994-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, the contributors to this volume show how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change. The book not only examines what these collocations and idioms are, but also what their purpose is within languages. Idioms and Collocations is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the construction, composition and annotation of the corpus. Chapters in the second section describe the methods for querying the corpus, the generation and maintenance of the example subcorpora, and the linguistic-lexicographic analyses of the target idioms. Finally, the third section presents the results of specific investigations into the syntactic, semantic, and historical properties of collocations. This book presents original work in corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics and lexicography. It will be useful for researchers in academic and industrial settings, and lexicographers.
Reviews / Votes
"This book provides a wealth of information regarding corpus searching and idiom properties. ... Idioms and Collocations is probably most useful for those studying corpus linguistics, though those undertaking studies in the area of idiom properties would also benefit from the second part. Overall, I found it a challenging but thought-provoking read."Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010 'This book is a neat and compact package of studies illuminating the phenomenon of German multi-word units from various angles. Its object is interesting and current in linguistics, and the fact that the studies are corpus-based makes it even more topical...Fellbaum's Idioms and Collocations is a very welcome contribution to the field of idiom research and offers valuable information about corpus-based study of multi-word units.' Esa Penttilae, Department of English, University of Joensuu, Finland, The Linguist List * Linguist List, The *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Academics
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8994-4 (9780826489944)
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Person
Dr Christiane Fellbaum is Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, and Director of the Wolfgang Paul-Preis Project, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
Content
1. Introduction, Christiane Fellbaum; 2. The DWDS Corpus, Alexander Geyken; 3. A Parser for Supporting Verb Structures, Alexander Geyken and Alexey Sokirko; 4. Corpus Queries, Axel Herold; 5. The Example Sub Corpora, Gerald Neumann and Fabian Koerner; 6. The Lexicographic Workbench, Gerald Neumann and Undine Kramer; 7. A Corpus-based Analysis of Variations in German Idioms, Ekatherini Stathi; 8. Surprises in Corpus Research: New Meanings of Well-known Idioms, Elke Gehweiler, Iris Hoeser and Undine Kramer; 9. Synonymy, Similarity and Difference of Multi-word Expressions, Christiane Huemmer; 10. Variations in the Determiner in VP Idioms, Anna Firenze. 11. The Status of the Noun Phrase in Support Verb Constructions, Angelika Storrer; 12. Valency Idiosyncracies in Idioms, Christiane Fellbaum.