Language Periphery Monocollocable Words in English, Italian, German and Czech |
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| Compiled by:
| Čermák, Frantisek
Čermák, Jan
Obstová, Zora
Vachková, Marie |
| Series title: | Studies in Corpus Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-1071-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $128.00 |
Book Description:
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A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English
ado in
without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and language-specific lines, monocollocable words in terms of their frequency, lexical as well as morphosyntactic behaviour, and various facets of their peripheral status. Each of the four...
More DescriptionA full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and language-specific lines, monocollocable words in terms of their frequency, lexical as well as morphosyntactic behaviour, and various facets of their peripheral status. Each of the four langauges covered, namely, English, Italian, German and Czech also offers a short introduction of the respective languages written in English, Italian, German and Czech. A rare contribution to our knowledge of an as yet little studied field, the book will attract the attention of, and stimulate a new interest in, all who are ready to acknowledge that collocation is a core phenomenon of language - lexicologists, lexicographers with a focus on phraseology, language typologists, linguists with a contrastive and historical agenda, and language teachers alike.