Title: From Words to Lexical Units: A Corpus-Driven Account of Collocation and Idiomatic Patterning in English and English-Spanish
Abstract: This book tackles the problem of ascertaining what is a lexical item. Based on extensive corpus evidence, the author queries the role of words as fundamental units of semantic analysis. Notions such as « word sense, « polysemy and « disambiguation are called into question. It is argued that mainstream phraseology has provided an insufficient account of the realm of multi-word choices. Accordingly, the ideas of « idiom and « collocation undergo revision in this work. The author comes up with an alternative proposal about what constitutes a unit of meaning and how the vocabulary is organized.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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