International Journal of Lexicography Advance Access originally published online on October 28, 2006
International Journal of Lexicography 2006 19(4):349-360; doi:10.1093/ijl/ecl031
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Corpus-based Studies of German Idioms and Light Verbs
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademier der Wissenschaften and Princeton University (fabiankoerner{at}arcormail.de)
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, (geyken{at}bbaw.de), (herold{at}bbaw.de), (gneumann{at}bbaw.de), (fabiankoerner{at}arcormail.de)
We discuss the motivation as well as the design and development of a large lexical resource focusing on German verb phrase idioms and light verbs. Entries for a given phrasal unit permit detailed linguistic analyses coupled with the appropriate corpus data.