Epilogue

Corpora are the basis of (all research into) corpus languages. Some corpora have become canonical, such that they are highly visible and with a long reception history. Others have not fared so well due to their materiality, their subject matter, or the research tradition. However, verbal multi-word expressions are an omniscient type of structure rather than being limited to any register, genre, lect, and spatial or temporal settings, such as comparing and contrasting non-canonical with canonical corpora brings to light differences and similarities along with curiosities. The epilogue takes stock of the approaches taken in this volume, none of which is purely phraseological or lexical, such that all of them are an important departure from established research practice. The epilogue sketches avenues for future work, especially with regard to less-resourced corpus languages.