The Syntactic Flexibility Of Semantically Non-Decomposable Idioms (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

Nunberg et al. (1994) caused a shift in perspective from a monolithic view of all<br> idioms towards a word-level approach for semantically decomposable idioms. We<br> take that idea one step further and argue that a semantically non-decomposable<br> idiom of syntactically regular shape can also be analyzed in terms of individual<br> word-level lexical entries. We suggest that these entries combine according to the<br> standard rules of syntax and that the restrictions on the syntactic flexibility of a<br> semantically non-decomposable idiom follow exclusively from the interaction of<br> the special semantics of these entries with the semantic and pragmatic constraints<br> of the relevant syntactic constructions in a particular language. In our analysis, the<br> words constituting a non-decomposable idiom make partially identical semantic<br> contributions. We formulate our analysis in Lexical Resource Semantics (Richter&lt...

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