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Victoria Beatrix Fendel; Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-653-0
Hardback978-1-80511-654-7
PDF978-1-80511-655-4
HTML978-1-80511-657-8
EPUB978-1-80511-656-1
Language
- English
BIC
- CFF
- CFK
- UXA
- DB
- CFF
BISAC
- LAN009010
- LAN009060
- LAN023000
- COM042000
- LIT004190
- SOC024000
Keywords
- Verbal multi-word expressions
- Corpus linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Syntax-lexicon interface
- Greek language
- Latin language
Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages
Data, Methodology, and Analysis
- Victoria Beatrix Fendel (editor)
FORTHCOMING
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.
Contributors
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
(editor)Researcher in Historical Linguistics at University of Oxford
Victoria B. Fendel (D.Phil. Oxford, 2018) is a researcher in historical linguistics at the University of Oxford, editor of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopaedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME (UniDive COST) initiative (website: www.ancientgreekmwe.com). Her research focusses on language contact and multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources. She is the editor of Support-verb constructions in the corpora of 'Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?' (Language Science Press, 2024) and author of 'Giving gifts and doing favours: Literary classical Attic Greek support-verb constructions' (De Gruyter Brill, 2025). [preferred pronouns: she/her; email: victoria.fendel@classics.ox.ac.uk]