[Corpora-List] Book Announcement

[Moises Almela Sanchez]

Dear list members,

Information about a new book is given below.

Moisés Almela-Sánchez.

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Almela-Sánchez, Moisés (2006). From Words to Lexical Units. A 
Corpus-Driven Account of Collocation and Idiomatic Patterning in 
English and English-Spanish . Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, Brussels, 
New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang. 421 pp.

ISSN 1436-1914
ISBN 3-631-55759-0
US-ISBN 0-8204-8740-6

Keywords: collocation, idiom principe, corpus liguistics, multi-word 
item, patterns.

Abstract:
In this book, the concept of a "lexical item" is reformulated basing on 
corpus evidence. The ideas of "idiom" and "collocation" undergo 
revision. The author comes up with an alternative proposal about what 
constitutes a unit of meaning and how the vocabulary is organized. 
Ultimately, the goal is to devise a fully-fledged theory of lexis that 
is consistent with corpus-driven methodology.

More information about the book can be found from the following link at 
the Publisher's website:

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchBooksResult.cfm&vLang=E&iValue=Autor&iQuickSearch=almela&iAutor=almela&vSearchBooks=Yes&vRecordPhrase=True&CFID=19773538&CFTOKEN=14399520