Reading assignment: discussion
• What are the main concepts (not only) in phraseology that corpus linguistics might shed a new light on?
• How can we distinguish different senses of a word?
• Why is it important to distinguish between a word-form and a lemma in terms of collocation profiles?
• Why is a corpus relevant for semantic research?
• Why is it important to know about a word’s frequency?
• What is the difference between content words and function words?
• What is a lexical density?
• How to decide what belongs to a core vocabulary?