This dataset contains the empirical data that are analysed and discussed in the doctoral dissertation "Frasar til besvær? Studiar av norm og bruk i norsk fraseologi" [The trouble with phrases: Studies of Norwegian phraseology in norm and usage]. The dataset consists of two collections. The first is a phrase collection which forms the empirical basis for the discussion in chapter 5 of the dissertation, and the second collection is discussed in chapter 6. The dataset has been manually curated.
The data in chapter 5 is a collection of 713 phrases and the different forms they are given in different dictionaries. The sources are two printed phraseological collections from 2011 ("Prikken over i-en og andre uttrykk" (Vannebo 2011) and "Ord og uttrykk på fire språk" (Erichsen 2011)) and the online dictionary Islex (islex.no) in 2014. Furthermore it is registered whether, and in what form, the phrases extracted from these sources are included in the online version of Bokmålsordboka and Nynorskordboka (ordbok.uib.no) from 2014. The selection criteria for the first collection are described on pages 203–211 in the dissertation and moreover attached as an appendix below.
The data in chapter 6 is a collection of attestations of the phrase "kaste barnet ut med badevatnet" (‘throw out the baby with the bathwater’), with variations, creative modifications and divergent use, in 833 Norwegian texts. There are 460 unique examples in Bokmål and 373 examples in Nynorsk excerpted from 10 different text corpora and other digital text collections in 2015 and 2016. The data were entered in table format (Excel sheet) and ordered with one attestation (one corpus instance) per line. For each attestation (i.e. for each line), attribute values were added in columns to describe and document the attestation further. The collection and methodological considerations of the second collection are described on pages 302–306 in the dissertation. These pages are attached as an appendix below.
The dataset is replication data for the following publication: Rauset, Margunn (2022). "Frasar til besvær? Studiar av norm og bruk i norsk fraseologi." ISBN 9788230854143 (print), 9788230866634 (PDF).
