PHRASEOLOGY STUDIES USING CORPUS DATA
Keywords:
Phraseology, corpus linguistics, collocation, idiom, multi-word expression, lexical bundle, concordance, frequency analysis, phraseological unit, data-driven learning, semantic transparency, language teaching, lexicography, authentic data, contextual meaning, register variation, corpus analysis, usage patterns, idiomaticity.Abstract
This article explores the role of corpus linguistics in the study of phraseology, focusing on how authentic language databases help identify, classify, and analyze multi-word expressions such as idioms, collocations, and fixed phrases. Traditional phraseological research relied on intuition and limited examples, but modern corpora allow linguists to examine thousands of real occurrences across genres and registers. The study emphasizes how corpus data contributes to discovering phraseological patterns, their frequency, variability, and semantic transparency. Moreover, it highlights the pedagogical and lexicographic applications of corpus-based phraseology in improving dictionaries, teaching materials, and second language acquisition. Corpus-based analysis thus provides a more objective, data-driven understanding of how phraseological units function in real communication, bridging the gap between linguistic theory and practical language use.
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