Collocation, Colligation and Encoding Dictionaries. Part II: Lexicographical Aspects

Siepmann, Dirk

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“…The crucial role played by these units in language is beginning to be recognized, as evidenced by a range of new publications (cf. Siepmann 2006;Gilquin et al 2007;Pecman 2008). This remodelling of the field should go hand in hand with a better appropriation of the highly-developed analytical instruments provided by the traditional approach.…”

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2. Disentangling the phraseological web

2008

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Although phraseology has recently begun to establish itself as a field in its own right, this process is being hindered by two main factors: the highly variable and wide-ranging scope of the field and the vast and confusing terminology associated with it. This chapter tackles these two issues successively in an attempt to disentangle the 'phraseological web'. We first draw up a clear distinction between two major approaches to the study of multi-word units, i.e. the phraseological approach and the distributional or frequency-based approach, which have set quite different boundaries to the field. We then argue that the variations in scope that characterize the field of phraseology are a direct result of its fuzzy borders with four neighbouring disciplines: semantics, morphology, syntax and discourse. We describe some of the most influential typologies of word combinations within the phraseological approach and present a categorization of multi-word units emerging from the distribution... AbstractAlthough phraseology has recently begun to establish itself as a field in its own right, this process is being hindered by two main factors: the highly variable and wide-ranging scope of the field and the vast and confusing terminology associated with it. This chapter tackles these two issues successively in an attempt to disentangle the 'phraseological web'. We first draw up a clear distinction between two major approaches to the study of multi-word units, i.e. the phraseological approach and the distributional or frequencybased approach, which have set quite different boundaries to the field. We then argue that the variations in scope that characterize the field of phraseology are a direct result of its fuzzy borders with four neighbouring disciplines: semantics, morphology, syntax and discourse. We describe some of the most influential typologies of word combinations within the phraseological approach and present a categorization of multi-word units emerging from the distributional approach. We conclude with suggestions regarding both the scope of the field and the terminology used.

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“…Siepmann (2005Siepmann ( , 2006 critically reviews different approaches to collocation, and tries to synthesize recent advances in collocational theory into a coherent framework for lexicological theory and lexicographic practice. He concludes that "the traditional dictionary-making process should be turned on its head: rather than starting from an alphabetical framework it should proceed from a bilingual or multilingual onomasiological research base (Siepmann, 2006)." Svensén (2009) discusses in more details the approaches to collocational information in a L1-L2 dictionary.…”

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Corpora and Collocations in Chinese-English Dictionaries for Chinese Users

Xia¹

2015

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The paper identifies the major problems of the Chinese-English dictionary in representing collocational information after an extensive survey of nine dictionaries popular among Chinese users. It is found that the Chinese-English dictionary only provides the collocation types of v+n and v+n, but completely ignores those of v+adv, adj+n and adv+adj. And as a common practice, this kind of dictionary doesn't give different collocates of synonymous equivalents. Besides, it provides collocational information on the basis of the headword, but not the equivalents. This leads to the suggestions for a new way of representing collocational information in Chinese-English dictionaries. The most important thing is that the Chinese-English dictionary should provide collocational information about the equivalents instead of the headword. All the five types of collocation are given the same status in a dictionary. Moreover, with corpus data, the selective restrictions of the English equivalents in meanings, frequency and semantic prosody should be explicitly represented to dictionary users by glosses, illustrative examples, collocation columns, etc. It is argued that by doing so, the dictionary will better meet the needs of the users.

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“…The semantic role 'SUBJECT' is used her in want of a better term for an entity which is related to something else. 26 For discussions of collocation see also Ellis, Frey andJalkanen (2009), Handl (2008), Hausmann (2007), Herbst (2011a), Mel'čuk, (2003, Mollet et al, (2011), Schmid (2003 and Siepmann (2005). See also Croft and Cruse (2004: 249-250), who classify collocations as "encoding idioms".…”

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Why Construction Grammar Catches the Worm and Corpus Data can Drive you Crazy: Accounting for Idiomatic and Non-Idiomatic Idiomaticity

Herbst¹

2015

Journal of Social Sciences

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This article outlines why the treatment of idiomatic elements in language in terms of constructions can be considered a real step forward in the understanding of the character of language. It is argued that construction grammar provides a theoretical basis for accommodating insights into the phraseological character of language that were gained in a number of fields such as corpus linguistics, foreign language teaching and traditional phraseology and lexicography.

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Collocation, Colligation and Encoding Dictionaries. Part II: Lexicographical Aspects

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

2. Disentangling the phraseological web

2. Disentangling the phraseological web

Corpora and Collocations in Chinese-English Dictionaries for Chinese Users

Why Construction Grammar Catches the Worm and Corpus Data can Drive you Crazy: Accounting for Idiomatic and Non-Idiomatic Idiomaticity

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