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In:Computational Phraseology
Edited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 24] 2020
► pp. 273–296

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Multi-word patterns and networks

How corpus-driven approaches have changed our description of language use

 | Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Published online: 8 May 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.24.14ste
Abstract
This paper discusses a theoretical and empirical approach to language fixedness that we have developed at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (‘Institute for German Language’) in Mannheim in the project Usuelle Worterbindungen (UWV) over the last decade. The analysis described is based on the Deutsches Referenzkorpus (‘German Reference Corpus’; DeReKo) which is located at the IDS. The corpus analysis tool used for accessing the corpus data is COSMAS II (CII) and – for statistical analysis – the IDS collocation analysis tool (Belica, 1995; CA). For detecting lexical patterns and describing their semantic and pragmatic nature we use the tool lexpan (or ‘Lexical Pattern Analyzer’) that was developed in our project. We discuss a new corpus-driven pattern dictionary that is relevant not only to the field of phraseology, but also to usage-based linguistics and lexicography as a whole.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The rocky road of qualitative interpretation
  • 3.Kinds of lexical fixedness
    • 3.1From multiword expressions to patterns
    • 3.2MWPS as autonomous units
    • 3.3Extended context patterns (ECPS)
  • 4.Corpus-linguistic methodology and interpretation
    • 4.1Corpus searches
    • 4.2Collocation profiles
    • 4.3KWIC bundles and slot-filler analysis
  • 5.A new type of corpus-driven, pattern-based MW dictionaries
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Internet sources
  • Abbreviations
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lexpan: Lexical Pattern Analyzer. [URL]
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