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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Corpas Pastor, Gloria
• Mitkov, Ruslan

Titel

Do Online Resources Give Satisfactory Answers to Questions About Meaning and Phraseology?

Ist Teil von

• Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology, 2019, Vol.11755, p.159-172

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper we explore some aspects of the differences between printed paper dictionaries and online dictionaries in the ways in which they explain meaning and phraseology. After noting the importance of the lexicon as an inventory of linguistic items and the neglect in both linguistics and lexicography of phraseological aspects of that inventory, we investigate the treatment in online resources of phraseology – in particular, the phrasal verbs wipe out and put down – and we go on to investigate a word, dope, that has undergone some dramatic meaning changes during the 20th century. In the course of discussion, we mention the new availability of corpus evidence and the technique of Corpus Pattern Analysis, which is important for linking phraseology and meaning and distinguishing normal phraseology from rare and unusual phraseology. The online resources that we discuss include Google, the Urban Dictionary (UD), and Wiktionary.