Overview

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.

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Author:   Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780826444738

ISBN 10:   0826444733
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 March 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) 2. The DWDS Corpus, Alexander Geyken (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany) 3. A Parser for Supporting Verb Structures, Alexander Geyken (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)and Alexey Sokirko 4. Corpus Queries, Axel Herold (Humboldt University, Germany) 5. The Example Subcorpora, 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 (Universität Potsdam, Germany) 10. Variations in the Determiner in VP Idioms, Anna Firenze 11. The Status of the Noun Phrase in Support Verb Constructions, Angelika Storrer (Universitat Dortmund, Germany) 12. Valency Idiosyncracies in Idioms, Christiane Fellbaum  (Princeton University, USA)

Reviews

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 Penttila, Department of English, University of Joensuu, Finland, The Linguist List * Linguist List, The *

'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 Penttila, Department of English, University of Joensuu, Finland, The Linguist List

Author Information

Dr. Christiane Fellbaum is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University and was Director of the Wolfgang Paul-Preis Project, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany. 

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