Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach

Abstract

1. Introduction and Background 2. Collocation and Chunking 3. Corpus and Computer 4. Frequencies and FEIs 5. Lexical and Grammatical Form 6. Variation 7. Ambiguity, Polysemy, and Metaphor 8. Discoursal Functions of FEIs 9. Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives 10. Cohesion and FEIs 11. Afterword

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