Facets of prefabrication

• Druk: Łódź, 2018
• Autor: Piotr Pęzik
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Corpus-based studies have brought fresh insights into the role of collocability and lexico-grammatical patterning as core aspects of language permeating its structure and use. Facets of Prefabrication builds upon these findings and provides further impetus in the direction of large-scale explorations of phraseology. lt introduces a dependency- based method of detecting potential phraseological units to increase the coverage of prefabricated structures in automatic combinatorial dictionaries which have so far been mainly restricted to binary collocations. Various sources of evidence are used to evaluate this approach and assess its relevance to phraseological theories, including word recall experiments and phraseological markers analyses. These investigations open new perspectives on the interplay of novelty vs. formulaicity in naturally-occurring language and increase our recognition of seemingly subtle, but nevertheless ubiquitous aspects of phraseological prefabrication.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-8088-974-3
• ISBN druku: 978-83-8088-973-6
• Liczba stron: 268

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1.	From novelty to prefabrication	9
Compositionality and novelty in language	9
Memory and prefabrication	14
Recognition of prefabrication	16
Facets of prefabrication	19

2.	Defining collocability	23
Incidence of prefabricated language	24
What are collocations?	28
Collocations as phraseological units	29
Identifying phraseological units	31
Properties of collocations	35
A review of definitions	38
Recurrence, recall and recomposition	47
Stereotyped recurrence	51
Summary 	59

3.	Insights from phraseology extraction	61
Phraseology extraction	62
Positional models	62
Relational models	66
Automatic Combinatorial Dictionaries	67
The structure and functions of ACDs	72
Which reference corpora?	74
Phraseological units as dependency trees	76
Idioms as catenae	77
Dependency and collocability	90
Collocational catenae	94
Incidence of first-order collocational catenae in the BNC	104
Recurrence of binary collocational chains	107
Evaluation of binary ACDs	111
Extracting higher-order catenae	117
Subsumption	120
Catena-based ACD structure	123
Data-driven extraction	132
The effect of corpus composition	134
Grouping variants	136
Example application of phraseology detection	137
Conclusions	141

4.	Recall of collocational chains 	143
Validation of automatic combinatorial dictionaries	143
Combining ‘in vivo’ and ‘in vitro’ data	148
The rigidity of collocational catenae	151
Recall in open-ended contexts	157
Draw vs. take a deep breath 	158
Receive vs. get federal funds 	163
Gain vs. win international fame	166
Cause significant vs. severe damage 	169
Read the small vs. fine print	172
Walk a thin vs. fine line	175
Tell a white vs. little lie	177
Solve a difficult vs. complex problem	179
Play a key vs. important role	181
Get vs. gain a better understanding	184
Conduct comprehensive vs. do a quick survey	186
Do much vs. file necessary paperwork	189
Binary choice questions	191
Win a decisive vs. overwhelming victory	192
Sway vs. shape public opinion	195
Make a convincing vs. compelling argument	 	199
Draw vs. reach the same conclusion 	202
Give the same vs. equal opportunity 	204
A model	206
Conclusions	209

5.	Phraseology markers	213
The proverbial N	214
Syntactic patterns	219
Examples of other markers	224
Non-figurative phraseology	227
Proverbial as iconic	229
Derivations	235
Conclusions	237

6.	Conclusions	241

Bibliography	247
Index	261
Tables and Figures	263