Locution or collocation: comparing linguistic and statistical methods for recognising complex prepositions
Abstract
Multi–Word Expressions (MWE) include a large range of linguistic phenomena, such as nominal compounds and institutionalized phrases. These expressions, which can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature, are frequently used in everyday language as well as in formal contexts. In this work we investigate a type of MWE, the complex preposition (CP). The purpose is to establish the relationship between the notions of locution - the linguistic view of CPs - and collocation - the statistical view - when we look into the corpus, and to consider how these notions can be applied to the delimitation of CPs.
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Published
2004-07-31
How to Cite
OLIVEIRA, Claudia; NOGUEIRA, Cícero; GARRÃO, Milena.
Locution or collocation: comparing linguistic and statistical methods for recognising complex prepositions. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 2. , 2004, Salvador/BA.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2004
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p. 123-132.
