Corpora: prefabs - more references

SaBa (bartsch@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 10:13:39 +0200

1. a good starting point into the work of Igor Mel'cuk is:
Wanner, Leo. ed. Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language
Processing. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Philadelphia.

2. a dictionary of collocations plus companion volumes is the BBI now
published as:

Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson. 1997. The BBI Dictionary of
English Word Combinations. Revised Edition. John Benjamins: Amsterdam,
Philadelphia.

plus

Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson. 1986. Lexicographic
Description of English. Studies in Language Companion Series Volume 14.
Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Benson, Morton, Evelyn Benson, Robert Ilson, Young. 1991. Using the BBI:
A Workbook exercises for the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English.
Amsterdam, New York: John Benjamins Publishing.

3. VAN DER WOUDEN, TON. 1997. NEGATIVE CONTEXTS. COLLOCATIONS, POLARITY
AND MULTIPLE NEGATION. ROUTLEDGE: LONDON, NEW YORK.
has a good introductory section on collocations

Happy corpusing!

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