[Corpora-List] Incidence of MWEs

[Hans Lindquist]

Hi,

Very diverging figures (5-80%; due to different definitions of MWEs) are
given in the following sources:

Moon, Rosamund. 1998. /Fixed expressions and idioms in English/. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. Chapter 4.

Altenberg, Bengt. 1998. On the phraseology of spoken English: The
evidence of recurrent word-combinations. In Cowie, A.P. (ed.)
/Phraseology/. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 101-122.

Erman, Britt & Beatrice Warren. 2000. The idiom principle and the open
choice principle. /Text/ 20(1), 29-62.

All the best,

Hans

David Brooks skrev:

> 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