Idioms and Collocations

Corpus-Based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8994-4
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Corpus and Discourse

Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language

Fifth book in the Corpus and Discourse series - presenting indepth research in the fields of corpus linguistics
- Christiane Fellbaum is based at Princeton University, USA and is very well known in the field
- Examines both what idioms and collocations are as well as their purpose within languages.

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 suggest 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.

Zielgruppe

Academics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fellbaum, Christiane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 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
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

Über Autor(innen)

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.