Phraseology

An interdisciplinary perspective

Editors

Sylviane Granger | Université Catholique de Louvain

Fanny Meunier | Université Catholique de Louvain

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Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational. It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.

[Not in series, 139] 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.139

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. xi–xii

Acknowledgements | p. xiii

Preface

John McH. Sinclair | pp. xv–xviii

Introduction: The many faces of phraseology

Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier | pp. xix–xxviii

Part I. Phraseology: theory, typology and terminology

1. Phraseology and linguistic theory: A brief survey

Stefan Th. Gries | pp. 3–25

2. Disentangling the phraseological web

Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot | pp. 27–49

3. A unified approach to semantic frames and collocational patterns

Willy Martin | pp. 51–65

4. Processing of idioms and idiom modifications: A view from cognitive linguistics

Marija Omazić | pp. 67–79

5. A very complex criterion of fixedness: Non-compositionality

Maria Svensson | pp. 81–93

6. Reassessing the canon: 'Fixed' phrases in general reference corpora

Gill Philip | pp. 95–108

Part II. Corpus-based analyses of phraseological units

7. Adjective + Noun sequences in attributive or NP-final positions: Observations on lexicalization

Pierre Arnaud, Emmanuel Ferragne, Diana M. Lewis and François Maniez | pp. 111–125

8. Phrasal similes in the BNC

Kay Wikberg | pp. 127–142

9. Foot and Mouth: The phrasal patterns of two frequent nouns

Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin | pp. 143–158

10. The Good Lord and his works: A corpus-driven study of collocational resonance

Geoffrey Williams | pp. 159– 173

11. Fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy in the speech of people with Alzheimer's disease

Margaret Maclagan, Boyd Davis and Ron Lunsford | pp. 175–187

Part III. Phraseology across languages and cultures

12. Cross-linguistic phraseological studies: An overview

Jean-Pierre Colson | pp. 191–206

13. Figurative phraseology and culture

Elisabeth Piirainen | pp. 207–228

14. Critical observations on the culture-boundness of phraseology

Annette Sabban | pp. 229–241

15. Phraseology in a European framework: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research project on widespread idioms

Elisabeth Piirainen | pp. 243–258

16. Free and bound prepositions in a contrastive perspective. The case of with and avec

Christelle Cosme and Gaëtanelle Gilquin | pp. 259–274

17. Contrastive idiom analysis: The case of Japanese and English idioms of anger

Priscilla Ishida | pp. 275–291

18. Automatic extraction of translation equivalents of phrasal and light verbs in English and Russian

Olga Mudraya, Scott S.L. Piao, Paul Rayson, Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych and Laura Löfberg | pp. 293–309

Part IV. Phraseology in lexicography and natural language processing

19. Dictionaries and collocation

Rosamund Moon | pp. 313–336

20. Computational phraseology: An overview

Ulrich Heid | pp. 337–360

21. A computational lexicography approach to phraseologisms

Cornelia Tschichold | pp. 361–376

22. Extracting specialized collocations using lexical functions

Brigitte Orliac | pp. 377–390

23. Combined statistical and grammatical criteria for the retrieval of phraseological units in an electronic corpus

José-Manuel Pazos Bretaña and Antonio Pamies Bertrán | pp. 391–406

Envoi

The phrase, the whole phrase and nothing but the phrase

John McH. Sinclair | pp. 407–410

Author index | pp. 411–415

Subject index | pp. 417–422

“ Phraseology – An interdisciplinary perspective is a finely-edited volume, which will provide its readers with a lot of food for thought if they wish to know more about an area of language description which was long neglected and is now undergoing a vivid and welcome revival.”

Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft Natural Language Group, in the International Journal of Translation, Vol. 21:1-2, Jan-Dec 2009, pp.189-193.

“The editors state that the aim of this volume is to reflect the interdisciplinary dimension of the phraseological studies. One cannot but agree that this aim has been thoroughly accomplished as the volume covers such a wide range of perspectives, beginning with theoretical aspect, reflecting on corpus-based analysis of phraseological units and phraseology across different languages and cultures, ending, not surprisingly, with computational linguistics. This volume might be considered a phraseological manifesto of a kind, since most of the articles clearly advocate the strong necessity for studying phrases, multi-word units, phraseological units, or whatever term we choose. The diverse terminology also testifies to the maturing and early stage of this branch of linguistics. We might conclude that this book mirrors a view that with the general increase in research in phraseology and the fast development of computational linguistics, it is a rather promising linguistic discipline whose time, to put it in a phrase, has yet to come.”

Jezikoslovlje 11(1): 101-124, 2010

“A convincing case is made in this book for more information on both the internal (co-textual) and external (contextual) situations in which words occur in various combinations as well as for more criteria that are required in their identification, interpretation, classification and codification.”

Reinhart Hartmann, University of Exeter, in International Journal of Lexicography, 2008

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