Idiome in einem Digitalen Lexikalischen System

SummaryThe study of German idioms has relied largely on introspection and constructed examples. Consequently, their representation in grammars and traditional dictionaries is inadequate and neither reflects their wide range of syntactic and semantic variation nor clarifies their lexical status. The project motivated and described here has as its goal the empirical investigation of VP-Idioms. Idioms collected from a one billion word corpus are analysed in great breadth and depth and their properties are represented digitally in an innovative lexical resource.