[Corpora-List] Book Announcement

From: Moises Almela Sanchez (moisesal@um.es)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 18:25:14 MET

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    Dear list members,

    Information about a new book is given below.

    Moisés Almela-Sánchez.

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    Almela-Sánchez, Moisés (2006). From Words to Lexical Units. A
    Corpus-Driven Account of Collocation and Idiomatic Patterning in
    English and English-Spanish . Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, Brussels,
    New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang. 421 pp.

    ISSN 1436-1914
    ISBN 3-631-55759-0
    US-ISBN 0-8204-8740-6

    Keywords: collocation, idiom principe, corpus liguistics, multi-word
    item, patterns.

    Abstract:
    In this book, the concept of a "lexical item" is reformulated basing on
    corpus evidence. The ideas of "idiom" and "collocation" undergo
    revision. The author comes up with an alternative proposal about what
    constitutes a unit of meaning and how the vocabulary is organized.
    Ultimately, the goal is to devise a fully-fledged theory of lexis that
    is consistent with corpus-driven methodology.

    More information about the book can be found from the following link at
    the Publisher's website:

    http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchBooksResult.cfm&vLang=E&iValue=Autor&iQuickSearch=almela&iAutor=almela&vSearchBooks=Yes&vRecordPhrase=True&CFID=19773538&CFTOKEN=14399520

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