Amanda C. Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amanda C. Murphy is involved.
2015 On “true” portraits of Letters to Shareholders – and the importance of phraseological analysis Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
The purpose of the present paper is primarily methodological. It provides evidence that a research question investigated in a corpus can produce different results according to the software adopted, queries the comparability of the results, and shows that the whole picture is more than one piece of… read more
2013 On “true” portraits of Letters to Shareholders – and the importance of phraseological analysis Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
The purpose of the present paper is primarily methodological. It provides evidence that a research question investigated in a corpus can produce different results according to the software adopted, queries the comparability of the results, and shows that the whole picture is more than one piece of… read more
2010 4-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article
2008 N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 351–367 | Article
This paper investigates the idiom principle realized as four-word phrases (4-grams) headed by prepositions in specialized corpora in English and Italian. Concentrating on at the end of, it reports that the collocates of at the end of regard time, and that apparently synonymic 4-grams are not used… read more