The Very Idea! A Corpus-Based Comparison of Idea, Concept and Notion and Their Formal Equivalents in Spanish‪.‬

1. Introduction: aims and methodology The aim of this article is to exploit the power of corpus-based analysis in order to reveal differences, as well as similarities, between lexical items which appear to be closely related.1 More concretely, I shall examine some properties of the nouns IDEA, CONCEPT and NOTION in English and between these nouns and their formal equivalents IDEA, CONCEPTO and NOCION in Spanish, including their distribution across four registers of each language: spoken, fiction, news and academic writing. (2) The main focus will be on the English data, the Spanish data being examined rather more cursorily.