Idioms and Collocations: Corpus‐based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies edited by Christine Fellbaum

Abstract

By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change. INDICE: C. Fellbaum: Introduction ? A. Geyken: The DWDS corpus ? A. Geyken / A. Sokirko: A parser for supporting verb structures ? A. Herold: Corpus queries ? G. Neumann / F. Koerner: The example subcorpora ? G. Neumann / U. Kramer: The lexicographic workbench ? E. Stathi: A corpus-based analysis of variations in german idioms ? E. Gehweiler \& al.: Surprises in corpus research: new meanings of well-known idioms ? C. Huemmer: Synonymy, similarity and difference of multi-word expressions ? A. Firenze: Variations in the determiner in VP idioms ? A. Storrer: The status of the noun phrase in support verb constructions ? C. Fellbaum: Valency idiosyncracies in idioms.