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The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
[Natural Language Processing 14] 2021
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Chapter 9
Multiword expressions – a tough typological nut for Swedish FrameNet++

| University of Gothenburg
Multiword expressions have attracted much attention in language technology over the last two decades or so, and in general linguistics, the interest in phraseology – which includes the linguistic study of multiword expressions – goes back much further. In our work on the multilingual components of Swedish FrameNet++, we have strived to adopt a typologically informed view on multiword expressions. This raises a number of theoretical and methodological questions, some of which are discussed in this chapter.
Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.Multiword expressions in Swedish FrameNet++
  • 3.MWEs from a typological perspective: A first cut
    • 3.1The “words” of MWEs
    • 3.2The “lexemes” of MWEs
    • 3.3How frequent are multiword expressions in language?
      • 3.3.1MWEs in the lexicon
      • 3.3.2Which kinds of lexical units should we count?
      • 3.3.3MWEs in texts
      • 3.3.4MWEs and parts of speech
      • 3.3.5Towards a typological generalization?
        • 3.3.5.1Data sources and data commensurability
        • 3.3.5.2Verbs, nouns and other parts of speech in corpora and dictionaries
        • 3.3.5.3Headedness, verb-to-noun ratio, and support verb constructions
        • 3.3.5.4The diachrony of support verb constructions in verb-final languages
    • 3.4What kinds of MWEs are there?
    • 3.5Where do we find cross-linguistic MWE data?
  • 4.Taking stock: Towards a typology of MWEs?
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 26 November 2021
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