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David Wible workshop
Central problem †
- What do learners need to master in order to master a word?
- phraseological challenge for learners
- single words vs. multi-word units
- tokens don't flag themselves as tokens of WHAT
- frozen expressoin <---> compositional expression
- idiom principle <---> open choice principle
- partially productive lexico-grammatical patterns
- collocation/colligation/constructions
How corpora can help †
- Collocation Explorer (Taiwan): two-word collocation
- N-gram
- every n-word adjacent pairs
- StringNet? structure
- n-grams: the syntagmatic dimension of company that words keep
- e.g. haven't the foggist idea
- hybrid n-grams:
- e.g. haven't (got) the ADJ idea
StringNet? †
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