Section outline

    • Stubbs, M. (2002). 2. Words, Phrases and Meanings: Basic Concepts. In M. Stubbs, Words and Phrases, pp 24-53. Oxford: Blackwell.

    • 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?