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Idioms and Collocations: Corpus-Based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies
Contributor(s): Fellbaum, Christiane (Editor), Mahlberg, Michaela (Editor), Teubert, Wolfgang (Editor)

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 ISBN: 082648994X     ISBN-13: 9780826489944
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE: $231.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2007
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Annotation: 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

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics
Dewey: 410.285
LCCN: 2007276405
Series: Research in Corpus and Discourse
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.09 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 297
 
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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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