@inProceedings{alfter-volodina-2018-whole-275362, title = {Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? A corpus-based pilot study of the lexical complexity in multi-word expressions.}, abstract = {Multi-word expressions (MWE) are assumed to be good predictors of language learner proficiency, however, there are no methods to establish at which level which MWEs can be assumed to be known. In this study we look at whether the target (proficiency) level of MWEs can be calculated based on the known level of its constituents.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of SLTC 2018, Stockholm, October 7-9, 2018}, author = {Alfter, David and Volodina, Elena}, year = {2018}, }