Re: Corpora: Corpus of English proverbs and set phrases

From: Andrew Harley (aharley@cup.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 10:59:20 MET

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    At 04:20 PM 24/01/2000 +0100, you 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
    >fmaniez@wanadoo.fr

    Instead of a corpus, you might want to consider using an existing
    dictionary which gives examples of idioms in context, e.g. the Cambridge
    International Dictionary of Idioms. This is available as SGML data for
    prices from 300 pounds (university research use) to 3000 pounds (full
    development licence). See http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/reference/data.htm
    for more information.

    Andrew Harley
    Systems Development Manager - ELT Reference
    Cambridge University Press

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