Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions

Kay, Paul; Michaelis, Laura A.; Sag, Ivan A.; Flickinger, Dan

ISBN 10: 0937073415 / ISBN 13: 9780937073414

Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2025

Codice articolo 48315044-n

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A thorough investigation into idioms and their grand meaning, including how best to analyze them.

Any theory of idioms should be part and parcel of a general theory of grammar, adding as little machinery to one's overall grammatical approach as possible in describing both the syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies and regularities of this large class of linguistic expressions.  This volume presents several lexicalist analyses of idioms within the framework of Sign-Based Construction Grammar, reflecting three guiding principles: many but not all idioms are syntactically and semantically compositional, dividing into distinct classes; idioms are analyzable in terms of a suitably rich lexicon and a set of constructions (lexical and syntactic rules) with corresponding meaning representations; and idiomaticity is a gradient phenomenon, exhibiting wide variation in degree of syntactic flexibility and meaning.

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Titolo: Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical ...
Casa editrice: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
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