[Corpora-List] Incidence of MWEs

[David Brooks]

Dear Corpora-folk,

I was wondering if anyone has estimated the incidence of multi-word 
expressions in language. I know that empirical estimates are tied to 
particular corpora, but does anyone have an account of MWEs for 
particular corpora, so that "ball-park" figures of the proportion of 
MWEs can be estimated?

Better yet, can anyone give me a good reference for the incidence of MWEs?

Regards,
David
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David Brooks
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~djb