Multiword expressions Insights from a multi-lingual perspective

<p>Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications<br> and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery<br> developed for free combinations where the default is that the meaning of an utterance can<br> be predicted from its structure.</p> <p>There is a rich body of primarily descriptive work on MWEs for many European languages<br> but comparative work is little. The volume brings together MWE experts to explore the<br> benefits of a multilingual perspective on MWEs. The ten contributions in this volume look at<br> MWEs in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Maori, Modern Greek, Romanian, Serbian,<br> and Spanish. They discuss prominent issues in MWE research such as classification of MWEs,<br> their formal grammatical modeling, and the description of individual MWE types from the<br> point of view of different theoretical frameworks, such as Dependency Grammar, Generative<br> Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Lexicon<br> Grammar.