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  <Title>Heiki-Jaan.Kaalep@ut.ee</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="62" end_page="62" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have investigated a subtype of multiword expressions, namely verbal multi-word expressions in a flective language Estonian. null We have described two linguistic resources - a database of VMWEs and a corpus that has been manually annotated for VMWEs. These expressions exhibit considerable variation in the corpus. The verb of a VMWE can combine with all the grammatical categories relevant for the verb. The nominal component of a VMWE can alternate in number and case.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, the nominal components of the different types of VMWEs (opaque and transparent idioms, support verb constructions and collocations) have different degrees of freedom.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> For a morphologically rich flective language, like Estonian, previous morphological analysis and disambiguation prior to the detecting of the multi-word units in a text is essential.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Credits The research described in this paper was partly supported by the Estonian Science Foundation (grant 5787).</Paragraph>
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