Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech
Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index
František Čermák
List of John Benjamins publications for which František Čermák plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Dictionaries | Language acquisition | Lexicography
Articles
2020 Monocollocable words: A type of language combinatory periphery Computational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.), pp. 9–22 | Chapter
How often do people, even native speakers, wonder, on hearing a familiar proverb, such as Much Ado about Nothing, what ado in this proverb really means? Most will know the proverb but their knowledge of ado is often restricted to a particular lexical neighbourhood without realising that it is in… read more
2016 Monocollocable words as a periphery of language combinations Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech, Čermák, František, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková, pp. 3–9 | Article
2016 A frequency dictionary of Czech monocollocable words: [Český frekvenční slovník monokolokabilních slov] Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech, Čermák, František, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková, pp. 37–53 | Article
2016 Monokolokabilní slova v češtině jako periférie jazyka Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech, Čermák, František, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková, pp. 11–15 | Article
2016 An alphabetical dictionary of Czech monocollocable words: [Český abecední slovník monokolokabilních slov] Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech, Čermák, František, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková, pp. 73–87 | Article
2016 Introduction Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech, Čermák, František, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková, pp. 1–2 | Article
2012 The case of InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:3, pp. 411–427 | Article
This paper introduces InterCorp, a parallel corpus including texts in Czech and 27 other languages, available for online searches via a web interface. After discussing some issues and merits of a multilingual resource we argue that it has an important role especially for languages with fewer native… read more
2009 Spoken Corpora Design: Their Constitutive Parameters International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:1, pp. 113–123 | Article
From a linguistic point of view, spoken corpora should be primary for research but that has not been the case so far. Hence, the problem of what should be included in the corpora has hardly ever been considered. Often it would appear that anything spoken is included on an ad hoc basis. The need… read more
2005 New generation corpus-based frequency dictionaries: The case of Czech International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:4, pp. 453–467 | Article
With a brief outline of the history of frequency dictionaries of the past, a renewed need for these dictionaries, based on modern large corpora, is observed. A linguistic background and some criticism of what has been done is offered. It is stressed that, next to the traditional and predominant… read more
2004 Modality in Czech and English: Possibility particles and the conditional mood in a parallel corpus International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:1, pp. 83–95 | Article
The paper examines two kinds of modality exponents and their interlingual relationships, using an aligned parallel minicorpus of two contemporary Czech originals (drama and novel) and their English translations. It focuses on four most frequent Czech adverbial particles of… read more
2003 1.2 Source materials for dictionaries A Practical Guide to Lexicography, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 18–25 | Chapter
2003 Introduction: Prague School of Linguistics in its classical time and today Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics, Vachek, Josef, pp. 1–20 | Miscellaneous
2002 Today's corpus linguistics: Some open questions International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:2, pp. 265–282 | Article
The paper is concerned with problems of methodology. Against this background, the situation of today's corpora is discussed and some fields are identified as being in a far from satisfactory shape. The place of corpora in linguistics is briefly looked at, suggesting that structuralist tradition is… read more
1997 Czech National Corpus: A Case in Many Contexts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:2, pp. 181–197 | Article
Against the background of some of the major linguistic problems which demand our attention and which should point to some badly-needed criteria, the brief history and structure of the Czech National Corpus is outlined. The points seen as open include differences between various languages in their… read more
1996 Ferdinand de Saussure and the Prague school of Linguistics Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová (eds.), pp. 59 ff. | Article
1995 Functional System and Evaluation Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 3 ff. | Article
1994 Idiomatics The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics, Luelsdorff, Philip A. (ed.), pp. 185–195 | Article