Idiom database

We provide linguistic analyses of 817 German idioms and light verb constructions. Analysis was done entirely by hand and based on corpus data taken from the DWDS Corpus. The results focus on morphological, syntactic, and semantic features of the „canonical forms“ as well as on deviations.

Should you be interested in the dataset, please contact Dr. Alexander Geyken.

References

Fellbaum, C. (ed.) (2007): Collocations and Idioms: Corpus-Based Linguistic and Lexicographic Studies. Continuum Press, Birmingham (UK).
Fellbaum. C. (ed.) (2006): Corpus-Based Studies of German Idioms and Light Verbs. Special issue of the Journal of Lexicography, 19.4.
other publications of the project