Resumen de Wortverbindungsfelder: fields of multi-word expressions
Annelen Brunner, Kathrin Steyer
In this paper we outline our corpus-driven approach to detecting, describing and presenting multi-word expressions (MWEs). Our goal is to treat MWEs in a way that gives credit to their flexible nature and their role in language use. The bases of our research are a very large corpus and a statistical method of collocations analysis. The rich empirical data is interpreted linguistically in a structured way which captures the interrelations, patterns and types of variances of MWEs. Several levels of abstraction build on each other : surface patterns, lexical realizations (LRs), MWEs and MWE patterns. Generalizations are made in a controlled way and in adherence to corpus evidence. The results are published online in a hypertext format.
