Re: Corpora: Corpus of English proverbs and set phrases

From: Bruce L. Lambert (lambertb@uic.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 18:16:47 MET

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

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Spears%2C%20Richard%20A./102-667273
    4-0799240

    At 04:20 PM 1/24/00 +0100, François Maniez wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    > 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.
    >
    > Thanking you all in anticipation
    >
    > François MANIEZ
    > Département de Langues Étrangères Appliquées
    > Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et en Traduction
    > Faculté des Langues
    > Université Lyon II
    > <mailto:fmaniez@wanadoo.fr>fmaniez@wanadoo.fr
    >

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