Syllabus/achievement requirements

Course book

• Fiedler, Sabine. 2007. English Phraseology. A Coursebook. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

Articles (in compendium):

• Altenberg, Bengt. 1998. On the Phraseology of Spoken English: The Evidence of Recurrent Word-combinations. In A.P. Cowie (ed.). Phraseology. Theory, Analysis, and Applications. Oxford University Press. 101-122.

• Culpeper, Jonathan and Merja Kytö. 2002. Lexical Bundles in Early Modern English dialogues: A window into the speech-related language of the past”. In T. Fanego, B. Méndez-Naya, and E. Seoane (eds.), Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 45–63.

• Erman, Brit and Beatrice Warren. 2000. The idiom principle and the open choice principle. Text, 20, 29–62.

• Gledhill, Christopher. 2000. The discourse function of collocation in research article introductions. English for Specific Purposes 19:2. 115-135.

• Granger, Sylviane and Magali Paquot. 2008. Disentangling the phraseological web. In S. Granger and F. Meunier (eds). Phraseology. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 27-50.

• Gries, Stefan Th. 2008. Phraseology and linguistic theory. In S. Granger and F. Meunier (eds). Phraseology. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 3-26.

• Johansson, Stig. 2009. Which way? On English way and its translations. International Journal of Translation, Vol. 21, No. 1-2. 15-40.

• Kjellmer, Göran 1991. A mint of phrases. In K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg (eds.) English Corpus Linguistics. Studies in Honour of Jan Svartvik. London: Longman, 111-127.

• Lindquist, Hans and Magnus Levin. 2008. Foot and mouth. The phrasal patterns of two frequent nouns. In S. Granger and F. Meunier (eds). Phraseology. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 143-158.

• Moon, Rosamund. 2008. Sinclair, Phraseology and lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography. Vol. 21 No. 3. 243-254.

• Pawley, Andrew and Frances Hodgetts Syder. 1983. Two puzzles for linguistic theory: nativelike selection and nativelike fluency. In S.C. Richards and R.W. Schmidt (eds.). Language and Communication. London & New York: Longman, 191-226.

• Renouf, Antoinette and John Sinclair. 1991. Collocational frameworks in English. In K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg (eds.). English corpus linguistics: Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik. London: Longman, 128-144.

• Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: OUP. Chapter 8. 109-121.

• Sinclair, John. 1999. A way with common words. In H. Hasselgård and S. Oksefjell (eds.) Out of Corpora. Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 157-179.

• Stubbs, Michael. 2007. Quantitative data on multi-word sequences in English: the case of the word world. In M. Hoey, M. Mahlberg, M. Stubbs, and W. Teubert (eds.). Text, Discourse and Corpora. Theory and Analysis. London: Continuum, 163-189.

• Stubbs, Michael. 2009. Technology and phraseology: With notes on the history of corpus linguistics. In U. Römer and R. Schulze (eds.) Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 15-31.

• Stubbs, Michael and Isabel Barth. 2003. Using Recurrent Phrases as Text-type Discriminators. Functions of Language 10(1): 65-108.

• Williams, Geoffrey C. 2008. The Good Lord and his works: A corpus-driven study. In S. Granger and F. Meunier (eds). Phraseology. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 159-174.

Articles (in Canvas):

• Granger, Sylviane and Yves Bestgen. 2014. The use of collocations by intermediate vs. advanced non-native writers: A bigram-based study. IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Vol. 52, 229-252.
• Mahlberg, Michaela. 2014. Corpus stylistics. In M. Burke (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. Abingdon & NY: Routledge, 378-392.

Phraseological Search Engine:

• All students are expected to make themselves familiar with Fletcher, William H. Phrases in English. http://phrasesinenglish.org/

Secondary reading:

• Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Chapter 13 (Lexical expressions in speech and writing), 988-1036.

• Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.