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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Flexibility of French Idioms: A Representation with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar; 2. Imagining Idiomatic Expressions: Literal or Figurative Meanings?; 3. Specialization and Reinterpretation in Idioms; 4. En Bloc Insertion; 5. Idiomaticity and Human Cognition; 6. Idiomatic Expressions and Their Role in the Organization of Topic Transition in Conversation; 7. The Boundaries of the Lexicon; 8. Phrasemes in Language and Phraseology in Linguistics; 9. Semantics of Idiom Modification |
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10. The Syntactic Behavior of Idioms11. The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning; 12. You Don't Die Immediately When You Kick an Empty Bucket: A Processing View on Semantic and Syntactic Characteristics of Idioms; 13. Idiomatic Blocking and the Elsewhere Principle; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions are written by psycholinguists and theoretical and computational linguists who take mutual advantage of progress in all d |
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Print version record |
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Idioms.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Idioms
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Van der Linden, Erik-Jan
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Schenk, Andr'
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Schreuder, Rob
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Schreuder, Robert
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| ISBN |
9781317780748 |
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1317780744 |
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