Corpora: Corpus of English proverbs and set phrases

[Bruce L. Lambert]

Richard Spears has written many wonderful books on this topic already.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Spears%2C%20Richard%20A./102-667273
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At 04:20 PM 1/24/00 +0100, François Maniez wrote: 
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> I wondered whether anybody on the list knows about an online corpus
available
> for download and consisting of English proverbs and/or set phrases. The
> objective is to turn the corpus into a data base that could be used as an
aid
> for reading comprehension by helping learners of English as a second
language
> to spot allusions to such proverbs or expressions.
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> Thanking you all in anticipation
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> François MANIEZ
> Département de Langues Étrangères Appliquées
> Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et en Traduction
> Faculté des Langues
> Université Lyon II
> <mailto:fmaniez at wanadoo.fr>fmaniez at wanadoo.fr
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