Compound Word Example
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- from http://mwe.stanford.edu/examples.html
- Determine
- (a) which out of this list of expressions are multiword expressions?
- (b) which of the Moon categories each multiword expression belongs to?
- (out) on a limb
- (the pain) comes and goes
- (to be) short changed
- a tall order
- ad hoc
- at/*in/*on nine o'clock
- blow one's top
- bone of contention
- break the ice
- brief moment
- bush telegraph
- business is business
- extension cord
- flash in the pan
- flat out like a lizard drinking
- foreign direct investment
- from scratch
- go bust
- heavy heart
- in passing
- in the meantime
- in time
- ins and outs
- library card
- machine translation
- mail/post man
- negative inflation
- odd ball
- off the scale
- once upon a time
- one fell swoop
- pearl of wisdom
- pecking order
- red herring
- right as rain
- rub X (up) the wrong way
- short shrift
- sleep tight
- smart bomb
- speak of the devil
- take umbrage
- the sun
- to good effect
- true candour
- Determine
- (Moon, 1998) ⇒ Rosamund Moon. (1998). “Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-based Approach." Oxford University Press.
- Anomalous collocations: lexicogrammatically marked
- (syntactically) ill-formed collocations: (at all, by and large)
- cranberry collocations: idiosyncratic lexical component -- one or more words found only in that collocation (in retrospect, kith and kin)
- defective collocations: idiosyncratic meaning component (in effect, foot the bill)
- phraseological collocations: semi-productive constructions, occurring in paradigms (in/into/out of action, on show/display)
- Formulae: pragmatically marked
- simple formulae/sayings: compositional strings with a special discourse function (alive and well, a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse)
- metaphorical/literal proverbs: (you can't have your cake and eat it, enough is enough)
- similes (as good as gold)
- Metaphors: semantically marked (non-compositional)
- transparent metaphors: (behind someone's back, pack one's bags)
- semi-transparent metaphors: (on an even keel, pecking order)
- opaque metaphors: (bite the bullet, kick the bucket)
- Collocations: compositional word co-occurrence of markedly high frequency
- semantic collocations: co-occurrence preferences/priming effects (jam with FOOD)
- lexico-semantic collocations: collocation paradigms (rancid butter/fat, face the truth/facts/problem)
- syntactic collocations: fully-productive phraseological collocations (too … to ...)
- Anomalous collocations: lexicogrammatically marked
- “Enough is enough!”
- http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861608562/enough.html
- Enough is enough: "used by a speaker to indicate that he or she will tolerate no more of something".
- Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed.
- Enough is enough: "something that you say in order to tell someone that you think what is happening should stop. Look, enough is enough. He's borrowed £300 already.
- on an even keel
- Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed.
- calm and not likely to change suddenly My main priority is to keep my life on an even keel for the sake of my two boys.
- See Don't even go there, break even
- See also: even, keel
- http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861608562/enough.html
- “By and large”
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=by%20and%20large
- S: (adv) by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly (usually; as a rule) "by and large it doesn't rain much here"
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large
- Adverb. 1. mostly, generally; with few exceptions. It was, by and large, an unexceptional presentation.
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=by%20and%20large