Idioms

by Everaert; Martin

• ISBN13: 9780805815054
• ISBN10: 0805815058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

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 disciplines. Linguists supply the facts and analyses psycholinguists base their models and experiments on; psycholinguists in turn confront linguistic models with psycholinguistic findings. Computational linguists build natural language processing systems on the basis of models and frameworks provided by theoretical linguists and, sometimes psycholinguists, and set up large corpora to test linguistic hypotheses. Besides the fascination for idioms that make up such a large part of our knowledge of language, interdisciplinarity is one of the attractions of investigations in idiomatic language and language processing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Acknowledgments	p. 12
References	p. 12
The Flexibility of French Idioms: a Representation with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar	p. 15
References	p. 41
Acknowledgments	p. 41
Imaging Idiomatic Expressions: Literal or Figurative Meanings?	p. 43
Appendix: Experimental Idioms in the Italian Form, with Word-By-Word and Meaning Translations	p. 53
Acknowledgments	p. 54
References	p. 55
Specialization and Reinterpretation in Idiomse	p. 57
Acknowledgments	p. 73
References	p. 73
En Bloc Insertion	p. 75
References	p. 96
Acknowledgments	p. 96
Idiomaticity and Human Cognition	p. 97
References	p. 113
Idiomatic Expressions and Their Role in the Organization of Topic Transition in Conversation	p. 117
References	p. 132
The Boundaries of the Lexicon	p. 133
Appendix: The Wheel of Fortune Corpus, Collected by Beth Jackendoff (single Words Omitted)	p. 157
Acknowledgments	p. 163
References	p. 164
Phrasemes in Language and Phraseology in Linguistics	p. 167
Acknowledgments	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 228
Appendix: Abbreviations and Notations	p. 232
Semantics of Idiom Modification	p. 233
Conclusions	p. 249
Idioms Used in the Survey	p. 250
The Syntactic Behavior of Idioms	p. 253
References	p. 270
Acknowledgments	p. 270
The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning	p. 273
References	p. 282
Acknowledgments	p. 282
You Don't Die Immediately When You Kick an Empty Bucket: a Processing View on Semantic and Syntactic Characteristics of Idioms	p. 283
References	p. 298
Idiomatic Blocking and the Elsewhere Principle	p. 301
References	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 315
Author Index	p. 317
Subject Index	p. 323
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