Phraseological Constructions in German:Corpus Search and Analysis of Slot Fillers

Abstract

The article deals with one of the areas of modern phraseological research, namely, phraseological constructions. Finding them in a corpus can be a challenging task even for an experienced user. On the example of several German phraseological constructions the article shows how to carry out complex search queries in the Russian National Corpus, DeReKo, Sketch Engine, as well as how to obtain frequency information about slot fillers.