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Zusatztext '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 Penttilä, Department of English, University of Joensuu, Finland, The Linguist List Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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! this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time! and suggests possible triggers for this change. Vorwort Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language Zusammenfassung 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, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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) ...
