[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1

[simon smith]

2009/12/1 simon smith <smithsgj at gmail.com>

>  Dear all,
>> last week I asked the list to pool their knowledge about research carried
>> out on DDL with phrases rather than single words. I didn't expect to find
>> much, having already trawled through the literature, but the picture is
>> pretty bleak. To put it bluntly, with very few exceptions, DDL has not
>> been
>> used to teach phrases.
>>
>
> I was thinking about Alex Boulton's work when I read this yesterday, but he
> (or someone else) pipped me at the post.
>
> A lot of Michael Barlow's work is on MWUs, so take a look at his site.
>
> In a way, though, your question puzzles me. Surely almost all of what we do
> in corpus studies is about which words go with which? Learning about
> collocations and context is the whole point, and this applies as much to DDL
> as to any other application of corpus linguistics.
>
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