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computational linguistics > linguistic concept > linguistic unit > multiword expression

Preferred term

multiword expression  

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • MWE
  • phraseme

Definitional context(s)

  • As defined by Mel'čuk (1998) a phraseme is a set of phrase which is not free (without freedom of selection of its signified and without freedom of combination of its components). (Li & Gaillat, 2020)
  • Multiword expression (MWE) is an umbrella term spanning a range of linguistic phenomena whose common property is idiosyncrasy or more specifically idiomaticity which may manifest in many different respects: lexical morphological syntactic semantic pragmatic and statistical (Baldwin and Kim 2010). (Savary, Stymne, Mititelu, Schneider, Ramisch & Nivre, 2023)

Example

  • A MWE is considered flexible when it has more than one accepted inflected or syntactic form. (Al-Badrashiny, Hawwari, Ghoneim & Diab, 2016)
  • Saraiki has a comprehensive system of creating multiword expressions and compounds in open and closed POS categories. (Alam, Tyers, Hanink & Kübler, 2024)
  • These phrasemes are comprised of words that in isolation do not impart much information in determining relatedness to a given topic but do in the context of the expression. (Holderness, Miller, Bolton, Cawkwell, Meteer, Pustejovsky & Hua-Hall, 2018)
  • This model measures the similarity between a multiword expression and its elements words and considers the constructions with higher similarities are greater decomposability. (Al-Badrashiny, Hawwari, Ghoneim & Diab, 2016)
  • We broadly consider a MWE as a verbal one if it contains at least one verb in its elements. (Al-Badrashiny, Hawwari, Ghoneim & Diab, 2016)

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