Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages

This volume brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to shed new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages such as Greek, Latin, and Egyptian. Addressing in particular corpora related to in-groups, which are often overlooked due to entrenched research traditions or limited accessibility, the volume makes these corpora newly visible and methodologically relevant.

Contributions critically examine language-specific descriptive categories derived from comparative concepts used in cross-linguistic comparison and interrogate how corpus languages, with their non-expandable and historically bound data, challenge existing frameworks, language-internally, cross-linguistically, and typologically. Drawing on expertise from linguistics, computer science, papyrology, and Egyptology, Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages explores both the theoretical and practical dimensions of studying verbal multi-word expressions, including cutting-edge digital solutions. Grounded in original data, the research pushes beyond current boundaries, advancing typological understanding and methodological precision.

The volume firmly supports multilingual research practices and challenges the dominance of English in academic discourse. The result is a critical, data-rich resource that advances our understanding of how verbal multi-word expressions function across historically significant but methodologically under-explored corpora.

Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages will be essential reading for historical linguists focused on corpus methods and the syntax-lexicon interface; general linguists studying multi-word expressions comparatively; and digital humanities scholars developing tools for large-scale corpus analysis, as well as those interested in specific, underexplored corpora like those related to Galen and Hippocrates or the Herculaneum papyri.