Re: [Corpora-List] Incidence of MWEs

From: Hans Lindquist (hans.lindquist@vxu.se)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 12:59:10 MET

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    Hi,

    Very diverging figures (5-80%; due to different definitions of MWEs) are
    given in the following sources:

    Moon, Rosamund. 1998. /Fixed expressions and idioms in English/. Oxford:
    Clarendon Press. Chapter 4.

    Altenberg, Bengt. 1998. On the phraseology of spoken English: The
    evidence of recurrent word-combinations. In Cowie, A.P. (ed.)
    /Phraseology/. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 101-122.

    Erman, Britt & Beatrice Warren. 2000. The idiom principle and the open
    choice principle. /Text/ 20(1), 29-62.

    All the best,

    Hans

    David Brooks skrev:

    > Dear Corpora-folk,
    >
    > I was wondering if anyone has estimated the incidence of multi-word
    > expressions in language. I know that empirical estimates are tied to
    > particular corpora, but does anyone have an account of MWEs for
    > particular corpora, so that "ball-park" figures of the proportion of
    > MWEs can be estimated?
    >
    > Better yet, can anyone give me a good reference for the incidence of
    > MWEs?
    >
    > Regards,
    > David

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