@incollection{Steyer2020, author = {Kathrin Steyer}, title = {Multi-word patterns and networks. How corpus-driven approaches have changed our description of language use}, series = {Computational Phraseology}, volume = {2020}, number = {24}, editor = {Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, address = {Amsterdam}, doi = {10.1075/ivitra.24.14ste}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101247}, pages = {274 -- 295}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This paper discusses a theoretical and empirical approach to language fixedness that we have developed at the Institut f{\"u}r Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (‘Institute for German Language’) in Mannheim in the project Usuelle Worterbindungen(UWV) over the last decade. The analysis described is based on the Deutsches Referenzkorpus (‘German Reference Corpus’; DeReKo) which is located at the IDS. The corpus analysis tool used for accessing the corpus data is COSMAS II (CII) and – for statistical analysis – the IDS collocation analysis tool (Belica, 1995; CA). For detecting lexical patterns and describing their semantic and pragmatic nature we use the tool lexpan (or ‘Lexical Pattern Analyzer’) that was developed in our project. We discuss a new corpus-driven pattern dictionary that is relevant not only to the field of phraseology, but also to usage-based linguistics and lexicography as a whole.}, language = {en} }