VERBAL MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS IN THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL CORPUS

Abstract

The paper is focused on verbal MWEs and investigates their usage in the Bulgarian National Corpus. The study employs a large dictionary of 27,902 Bulgarian verbal MWEs. The analysis aims at enhancing dictionary description of verbal MWEs, and can also influence the development of methods for automatic identification and classification of verbal MWEs by examining their properties, usage and variability.