Idioms and Collocations

Dr Christiane Fellbaum is Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, and Director of the Wolfgang Paul-Preis Project, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

• 1. Introduction, Christiane Fellbaum; 2. The DWDS Corpus, Alexander Geyken; 3. A Parser for Supporting Verb Structures, Alexander Geyken and Alexey Sokirko; 4. Corpus Queries, Axel Herold; 5. The Example Sub Corpora, Gerald Neumann and Fabian Koerner; 6. The Lexicographic Workbench, Gerald Neumann and Undine Kramer; 7. A Corpus-based Analysis of Variations in German Idioms, Ekatherini Stathi; 8. Surprises in Corpus Research: New Meanings of Well-known Idioms, Elke Gehweiler, Iris Hoeser and Undine Kramer; 9. Synonymy, Similarity and Difference of Multi-word Expressions, Christiane Huemmer; 10. Variations in the Determiner in VP Idioms, Anna Firenze. 11. The Status of the Noun Phrase in Support Verb Constructions, Angelika Storrer; 12. Valency Idiosyncracies in Idioms, Christiane Fellbaum.

"This book provides a wealth of information regarding corpus searching and idiom properties. ... Idioms and Collocations is probably most useful for those studying corpus linguistics, though those undertaking studies in the area of idiom properties would also benefit from the second part. Overall, I found it a challenging but thought-provoking read."Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010