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[[FrontPage]] David Wible workshop **Central problem [#of08720b] -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 [#c39d68f6] -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 ----ADJ=foggiest/remotest/etc. **StringNet [#v82a7569] -http://nav.stringnet.org
