Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective

Phraseology......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Dedication page......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
References......Page 19
Introduction......Page 20
References......Page 29
Phraseology: Theory, typology and terminology......Page 30
1. Introduction......Page 32
2. The notion of phraseology......Page 33
3.1. Generative linguistics......Page 39
3.2. Cognitive linguistics and Construction Grammar......Page 41
3.3. Corpus linguistics......Page 44
4. The identification of phraseologisms......Page 47
4.2. The identification of phraseologisms in cognitive linguistics/Construction Grammar......Page 48
4.3. The identification of phraseologisms in corpus linguistics......Page 49
5. Concluding remarks......Page 50
Acknowledgements......Page 51
References......Page 52
1. Introduction......Page 56
2. Two major approaches to phraseology......Page 57
3. The fuzzy borders of phraseology......Page 58
3.1. Phraseology and semantics......Page 59
3.2. Phraseology and morphology......Page 61
3.3. Phraseology and syntax......Page 62
3.4. Phraseology and discourse......Page 63
4. Categories of word combinations......Page 64
4.1. Some influential typologies......Page 65
4.2. Distributional categories......Page 67
5. Reconciling the two approaches......Page 70
6. Conclusion......Page 74
References......Page 75
2. Types of frames......Page 80
3.1. Frames and collocational patterns......Page 83
3.2. Frames and collocations......Page 84
3.3. Typology, model and illustration......Page 89
4. Concluding remarks and further prospects......Page 92
Acknowledgements......Page 93
References......Page 94
1. Introduction......Page 96
2. Theory of metaphor and metonymy and conceptual integration theory......Page 97
3. Processing of idioms......Page 98
4. Processing of idiom modification......Page 101
5. Conclusion......Page 105
References......Page 107
1. Introduction......Page 110
3.1. Four dichotomies associated with non-compositionality......Page 111
3.3. Encyclopaedic (non-)compositionality......Page 118
4.1. Partial compositionality......Page 119
4.3. Lexical content or grammatical form......Page 120
References......Page 121
1. Introduction......Page 124
2. Recurrent and non-recurrent forms in language corpora......Page 125
2.1. Phraseological skeletons......Page 126
2.2. Capturing the variety of non-canonical forms......Page 128
3. Searching general reference corpora for variant forms......Page 130
4.1. Variation and the open-choice principle......Page 132
4.2. Variation and the emergence of ad hoc semantic classes......Page 134
5. Concluding remarks......Page 135
References......Page 136
Appendix......Page 137
Corpus-based analysis of phraseological units......Page 138
1. Introduction......Page 140
2. Corpus investigation......Page 141
3.1. Frequency and distribution of six Adj + N sequences......Page 147
3.2. Reanalysis......Page 148
4. The phonology of Adj + N sequences......Page 151
5. Conclusion......Page 153
References......Page 154
1. Introduction......Page 156
2. Literal comparison versus simile......Page 158
3. Similes versus metaphors......Page 159
4. Corpus-based analysis of four simile patterns......Page 162
4.1. as Adj/Adv as (n=34,224)......Page 163
4.2. is like a (n=444)......Page 165
4.3. V like a (n=6,608)......Page 167
5. Register effects......Page 169
References......Page 170
Foot and mouth......Page 172
1.3. Scope......Page 173
2. Method and material......Page 174
3.2. Occurrence in phrases......Page 176
3.3. From n-grams to phrases......Page 177
4. Summary and conclusion......Page 185
References......Page 186
1. Introduction......Page 188
2. Source corpora and textual resources......Page 190
3. Collocational resonance......Page 191
3.1. New Testament resonance......Page 192
3.2. Shakespearian resonance......Page 194
3.3. God in the BNC......Page 197
4. Diminishing resonance: Shakespeare and the BNC......Page 199
5. Conclusion......Page 201
References......Page 202
1. Introduction......Page 204
2.1. Corpora......Page 206
2.2. Analysis methods......Page 207
3.1. Fixed expressions......Page 208
3.2. Extenders and small stories......Page 211
3.3. Metonymy......Page 212
4. Final comments......Page 213
References......Page 214
Phraseology across languages and cultures......Page 218
1. Introduction......Page 220
2. Does phraseology exist in all the world's languages?......Page 221
3. Contrastive phraseology across theories......Page 223
3.1. Cognitive semantics......Page 224
3.2. Corpus linguistics......Page 226
4. Contrastive phraseology and translation......Page 228
5. Concluding remarks......Page 230
References......Page 231
1. Preliminary remarks......Page 236
2. Attempts at a definition of culture......Page 237
3. Typology of cultural aspects underlying phrasemes......Page 239
4. Types of phrasemes and their relevance to culture......Page 242
5. Manifestations of culture in different conceptual domains......Page 245
6. National culture, worldview and culture in cross-linguistic research......Page 248
7. Historical and etymological research on phraseology......Page 251
References......Page 252
2.1. The terms culture and culture-specific......Page 258
2.2. The terms culture-specific and culturally bound......Page 259
3. Some problems in the interpretation of phrasemes in terms of culture......Page 260
3.1. Cultural knowledge and speakers' motivation of idiomatic meaning......Page 262
3.2. Conceptual metaphors: cultural relevance......Page 264
4. Conclusions......Page 268
References......Page 269
1. Preliminary remarks......Page 272
2. On the terms Europeanism and internationalism......Page 273
3. European languages and Eurolinguistics......Page 274
4.1. Pre-conditions and aims......Page 276
4.2. Methodological approaches......Page 277
4.3. Presentation of the data......Page 278
5.2. Genetic affiliation as cause of the wide spread?......Page 280
5.3. The common cultural heritage as cause of the wide spread?......Page 281
5.5. English as the donor language?......Page 282
References......Page 283
Example to swim against the tide/stream......Page 285
1. Introduction......Page 288
2.1. The study of prepositions......Page 289
2.2. Prepositions across languages......Page 290
2.3. Prepositions in English and French......Page 291
2.4. With and avec......Page 292
3.1. Data and methodology......Page 294
3.2. Mutual translatability......Page 295
3.3. Polysemy......Page 296
3.4. Phraseology......Page 297
4. Conclusion......Page 300
References......Page 301
1. Introduction......Page 304
2. Past approaches to the cross-linguistic analysis of idioms......Page 306
3. The present analysis: Theoretical framework and method of analysis......Page 307
4.1. , , , ......Page 309
4.2. ......Page 311
4.3. ......Page 312
4.4. ......Page 313
4.5. ......Page 315
5. Semantic correspondence and the problem of translation......Page 316
References......Page 318
1. Introduction......Page 322
2.1. Procedure......Page 324
2.2. Cross-language comparison......Page 325
3.1. Theoretical background and operational procedure......Page 328
3.2. A case study of Russian light verbs and their English translation equivalents......Page 330
3.3. A case study of English light verbs and their Russian translation equivalents......Page 331
4. Discussion......Page 334
5. Conclusion......Page 335
References......Page 336
Phraseology in lexicography and natural language processing......Page 340
1. Introduction......Page 342
2. The contribution of corpora......Page 343
2.1. River......Page 344
2.2. Rivet......Page 345
2.3. Riven......Page 346
3.1. Historical aspects......Page 347
3.2. Current practice......Page 349
4. Phraseology and learners' dictionaries......Page 351
4.1. The treatment of river......Page 352
4.2. The treatment of rivet......Page 354
4.4. The treatment of sell down the river......Page 355
5. Phraseology and bilingual dictionaries......Page 357
5.1. The treatment of river and rivière/fleuve......Page 358
5.2. The treatment of rivet and rivé/river......Page 359
6. Collocations dictionaries......Page 361
7. Conclusion and implications......Page 362
References......Page 363
1. Introduction......Page 366
2.1. The notion of multi-word expression......Page 368
2.2. NLP fields with a research tradition in computational phraseology......Page 370
2.3. Issues related to MWEs......Page 371
3.1. Representing the form of phraseological units......Page 372
3.2. Representing idiomaticity......Page 373
3.3. Accounting for the frequency and productivity of phraseology......Page 377
3.4. Towards standards for the representation of MWEs......Page 378
4.1. Extracting MWE candidates with association measures......Page 379
4.2. Extracting and classifying MWE candidates according to their form......Page 381
4.3. Identifying idiomatic MWEs by means of distributional semantics......Page 382
References......Page 383
1. Introduction......Page 390
2. Data collection......Page 393
3. Lexicographic work......Page 395
5. PhraseManager......Page 397
5.1. Invariant phrases......Page 399
5.2. Phrases with modifications and transformations......Page 401
References......Page 404
1. Introduction......Page 406
2. Syntactic and semantic characteristics of special language collocations......Page 407
3. The lexical functions of the Meaning-Text theory......Page 409
4. Related work on the automatic extraction of collocations......Page 411
5.1. Introduction......Page 412
5.2. Corpus analysis......Page 413
5.3. Extraction of verb + noun combinations......Page 414
5.4. Statistical processing......Page 415
References......Page 418
1. Introduction......Page 420
2. Extraction of phraseological units from raw corpora......Page 421
3. Extraction of phraseological units from tagged corpora......Page 426
4. Conclusion......Page 429
References......Page 430
Appendix......Page 432
1. The phrase......Page 436
3. Nothing but the phrase......Page 438
References......Page 439
Author index......Page 440
Subject index......Page 446