Richard Spears has written many wonderful books on this topic already.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Author=Spears%2C%20Richard%20A./102-667273
4-0799240
At 04:20 PM 1/24/00 +0100, François Maniez wrote:
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>
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> I wondered whether anybody on the list knows about an online corpus
available
> for download and consisting of English proverbs and/or set phrases. The
> objective is to turn the corpus into a data base that could be used as an
aid
> for reading comprehension by helping learners of English as a second
language
> to spot allusions to such proverbs or expressions.
>
> Thanking you all in anticipation
>
> François MANIEZ
> Département de Langues Étrangères Appliquées
> Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et en Traduction
> Faculté des Langues
> Université Lyon II
> <mailto:fmaniez@wanadoo.fr>fmaniez@wanadoo.fr
>
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