Re: Corpora: Phrase dictionaries

From: Andrew Harley (aharley@cambridge.org)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 11:07:31 MET

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    At 12:26 AM 01/02/2001 +0200, Pasi Tapio Tyrvainen wrote:
    >
    >I am looking for single and multilingual collocational resources,
    >such as phrase and idiom dictionaries, preferably alligned with
    >their counterparts / phrases in other languages phrase by phrase.
    >
    >What sources would you recommend? I assume there are also domain-specific
    >collections or definitions available (e.g. controlled technical
    >terminology)
    >- how to find a listing/summary of those?
    >
    >Thank you in advance,
    >
    >Pasi.Tyrvainen@jyu.fi

    Cambridge dictionaries <http://www.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm>
    include:

    * CIDE+ (with significant collocations highlighted in example sentences)
    * Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
    * Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
    * The Word Routes/Selector series contains six parallel bilingual thesauri
    (English with French, Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Italian, Portuguese).

    Andrew Harley
    Systems Development Manager
    English Language Teaching & Dictionaries
    Cambridge University Press
    http://www.cambridge.org/elt

    Direct line: (01223)325880

    Cambridge Dictionaries Online (8 million searches since August 1999):
    http://dictionary.cambridge.org

    Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM:
    http://www.cambridge.org/elt/cide



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